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The superstition in which we grew up,Though we may recognize i

The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over us–Not all are free
Who make mock of their chains. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller

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Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. – Marguerite Blessington

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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