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Quote by Herbert Agar
Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. - Herbert Agar

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. – Herbert Agar

Other quotes by Herbert Agar

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes. – Herbert Agar

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Herbert Agar
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Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories. – Felix Cohen

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An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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