Quote #63

'The Lord hath delivered him into my hands', rose from his seat, gave a thorough defense of Darwin's theories, and at the end concluded: 'I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.'

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  2. 'The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.'
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  4. God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
  5. When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist or a pantheist, a materialist or an ideali…
  6. Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt.
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  8. The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time.

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