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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exerti

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

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Ive long been really intrigued with what is the… proper role of faith and religion in public life. – Gene Robinson

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. – Francis Beaumont

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The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations. – Martin Van Buren

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Avarice, the spur of industry. – David Hume

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