It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have...
