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The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin. – Thomas Huxley

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. – Thomas Huxley

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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. – Thomas Huxley

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No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. – Marquis de Sade

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Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like. – William Law

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Im a believer in belief. Faith is something that works – it causes people to do things, it has results. Its an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. – Tommy Lee Jones

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I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. – David E. Price

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