"A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: “How could one so beautiful be so base?"

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“Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you.”

“My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.”

“My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.”

““Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?” asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.”

“Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.”

“I suspect that the word was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.”

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Science1943

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— Amit Ray

Literature1960

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Philosophy1942

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"Disease was produced by devils and could be cured only by priests, decaying bones, and holy water. Doctors were the rivals of priests. They diverted the revenues. The church opposed the study of anato…"

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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