Quotations - Alphabetic

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To understand everything is to hate nothing. -- Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
If God could make angels, why did he bother with men? -- Dagobert D. Runes (1902-1982)
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
-- Carl Sagan (1934- ) quoted in Time 20 Oct. 1980...
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
-- George Santayana (1863-1952) "The Life of Reason" (1905-1906)...
The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.
-- George Santayana (1863-1952) "The Life of Reason" (1905-1906)...
To fight is a radical instinc
There is no sure cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana (1863-1952) "Soliloquies in England" (1922)...
Our country right or wrong! When right, to be kept righ
when wrong, to be put right. -- Carl Schurz (1829-1906)...
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
... The tragedy of man is what dies inside himself while he still lives....
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. -- John Selden (1584-1654)

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