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They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism. Ronald Reagan
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth... Albert Schweitzer
A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him; the present is too hard. Impossibilities have been required of him; not in themselves impossibilities, but such for him. He winds, and turns, and torments himself; he advances and recoils, is ever put in mind, ever puts himself in mind; at last does all but lose his purpose from his thoughts; yet still... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Denis Diderot quote: "A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good..."
A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced. Denis Diderot
Cousin Mary hoped her journey through periods of dark and light was like that of a Swiss train toiling up the mountainside, in and out of tunnels but always a little farther up the hill at each emergence. But she could only hope that this was so, she did not feel it. It seemed to her that she did not advance at all and that what she was learning now was only to hold on. The Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass, she remembered, had had to run fast merely to stay where she was, but... Elizabeth Goudge
The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era. Story Musgrave
Max Muller quote: "Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling..."
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. Max Muller
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. Robert Mugabe
As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean. Jeanne Moreau
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock. Kevin Mitnick
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually. Kenneth R. Miller
Mark Millar quote: "I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing..."
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance. Mark Millar
John Stuart Mill quote: "The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance..."
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. John Stuart Mill
They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought. John Mica
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering. Ralph Merkle

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