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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for t

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isnt alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. – Flora Lewis

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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. – Flora Lewis

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In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. – Stephen J. Gould

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Religion

Religion is all bunk. – Thomas A. Edison

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Religion

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Religion

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. – George Bernard Shaw

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One promises much, to avoid giving little. – Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues

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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. – Edward R. Murrow

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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. Thats why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food. – Wale

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Make your feet your friend. – J.M. Barrie

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