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superstition
«We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
astrology, balderdash, fanatic, harmless, palmed, palms, safer, superstition
«The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.»
«The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Adversity,
America and Americans,
Competence
| Keywords:
at home, foes, incompetence, superstition, threaten
«When the human race has once acquired a superstition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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acquired, human race, likely, other race, race, remove, remove it, short, superstition
«Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.»
«We discover (in the gospels) a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
fabrication, fanaticism, Gospels, groundwork, superstition, vulgar