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In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
- William Shakespeare
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
- Winston Churchill
Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
- George Bernard Shaw


The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
'For example' is not proof.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
You are all you will ever have for certain,.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
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