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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they wa

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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A mans face is his autobiography. A womans face is her work of fiction. – Oscar Wilde

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. – J.B.S. Haldane

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