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You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.

— Robert Heinlein, American Author

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet and Playwright

What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

Every cause produces more than one effect.

— Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

— Annie Besant, British Theosophist

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Writer

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet and Playwright

Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

— Christopher Hitchens, Author
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