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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to be

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. – Thomas Huxley

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Cant Swim. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

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