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    We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

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It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.

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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a read more

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established read more

...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.

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Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

by W. Somerset Maugham Found in: Society Quotes,
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Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

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