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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. – Michael Polanyi

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Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. – Michael Polanyi

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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi

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President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. Its about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Whos next? – Michelle Malkin

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Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies. – George Whitefield

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In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. – G. I. Gurdjieff

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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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