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“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

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Henry David Thoreau

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“It insists on our absolute belief in unverifiable creeds and, in return, promises a reward that can only be verified after we cease to exist. By demanding the unconditional renunciation of our reason in this way, bad-faith prevents us from living an authentic, intentional life: it anaesthetises our integrity.”

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Book:Life As A Kite

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“But they weren’t small children, they were women, they were admiring someone they didn’t know the first thing about. Look at the hag Truth for once, college girl.”

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Book:White Oleander

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“People are very well poised in translating the meaning of filthy words than posing the reason for the hate speech”

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Author:P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“At one time or another someone said to us, ‘What were you thinking?’ And often it’s not that we weren’t thinking. Rather, it was that we were thinking that thinking would get in the way of what we wanted, so we were thinking that it would be better not to think. And I think that all of that is thinking.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What [Adam] Smith took from [David] Hume’s demonstration of the limits of reason, the absurdity of superstition, and the primacy of the passions was not a lesson of Buddhist-Stoical indifference but something more like a sense of Epicurean intensity—if we are living in the material world, then let us make it our material.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik

“The reality of the gospel is greater than reason.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Reason is good but reality is greater.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Reason is good but revelation is greater.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

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