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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task read more
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Example is the best precept.
Example is the best precept.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because read more
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and
aversation towards society in any man, hath read more
For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and
aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the
savage beast.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.