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• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd
  indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible....
• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd
  indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible....
• So-called Christian rock. . . . is a diabolical force undermining Christianity from within.
  -- Jimmy Swaggart, hypocrite and TV preacher, self-described pornography addict, Two points of view...
• I turn on my television set. I see a young lady who goes under the guise of being a Christia
  known all over the nation, dressed in skin-tight leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat and rythm of the music as the strobe lights beat their patterns across the stage and the band plays the contemporary rock sound which cannot be differentiated from songs by the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, or anyone else....
• The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
  -- Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach....
• History, n.: Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
  I know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning....
• Already the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality.
  All proffered samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests....
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• Marriage is not a good, but it is a good in comparison with fornication.
  ... Continence is a greater good than marriage. But I am aware of some that murmu...