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Quote by Havelock Ellis
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cheri

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. – Havelock Ellis

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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. – Havelock Ellis

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Evolution
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Havelock Ellis
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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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Pain
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. – Havelock Ellis

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Happiness
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Other Quotes from
Faith
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. – C. S. Lewis

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Faith

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. – Blaise Pascal

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Faith

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief. – Katey Sagal

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Faith

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. – Clara Barton

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Faith

Random Quotes

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music. – Beth Ditto

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Music

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. – George Bernard Shaw

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Genius

I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes. – Gwen Stefani

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diet

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to sciences story. – John Polkinghorne

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Science