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Quote by Thomas Paine
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. - Thom

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. – Thomas Paine

Other quotes by Thomas Paine

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. – Thomas Paine

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Freedom
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Thomas Paine
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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. – Thomas Paine

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Religion
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Thomas Paine
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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. – Thomas Paine

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power
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Thomas Paine
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Other Quotes from
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Truth bends abashed, and answers not. – Thomas Hardy, “An Impromptu to the Editor,” The Cornhill Magazine, January 1910

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Truth

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. – Simone Weil

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Truth

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

Its much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. Thats the truth. – Oprah Winfrey

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Truth

Random Quotes

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. – Hebrew Proverb

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Quotations

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? – Nicholas Rowe

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Goodbye

Poetry cant cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. – Maurice Saatchi

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Poetry

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read. – Andy Murray

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movies