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Not… what opinions are held, but… how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens van der Post

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yamai wa ki kara
sickness is a thing of the spirit – Japanese Proverb

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The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some things have to be believed to be seen. – Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems

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