Quotes from famous freethinkers

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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day

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Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art. - George Perkins Marsh

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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett

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The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry.~ Anonymous

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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mohandas Gandhi

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.
Gary Allan

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I think I am, therefore I am. I think. - George Carlin

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Sheila wrote:

I think I am, therefore I am. I think.- George Carlin

Actually, that's from Moody Blues (I think).

From "In The Beginning" on "On the Threshold of a Dream", 1969

I think.
I think I am.
Therefore I am.
I think.

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Darwins Stepchild wrote:

<quoted text>
Actually, that's from Moody Blues (I think).
From "In The Beginning" on "On the Threshold of a Dream", 1969
I think.
I think I am.
Therefore I am.
I think.

George was a drunken dope-fiend, am I surprised he may have inadvertantly blended others' material with his own? "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
Hunter S. Thompson

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Character is what you do in the dark. ~ Dwight L. Moody

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Sheila wrote:

Character is what you do in the dark.~ Dwight L. Moody

must be something wrong with me then.

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Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>must be something wrong with me then.

And me!

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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton

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