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| #2771 |  | Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous
 
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| #2772 |  | Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
 - Isaac Asimov
 
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| #2773 |  | And the crowd was stilled.  One elderly man, wondering at the sudden silence, turned to the Child and asked him to repeat what he had said.  Wide-eyed,
 the Child raised his voice and said once again, "Why, the Emperor has no
 clothes!  He is naked!"
 - "The Emperor's New Clothes"
 
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| #2774 |  | "Those who believe in astrology are living in houses with foundations of Silly Putty."
 -  Dennis Rawlins, astronomer
 
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| #2775 |  | To date, the firm conclusions of Project Blue Book are: 1. no unidentified flying object reported, investigated and evaluated
 by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our
 national security;
 2. there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air
 Force that sightings categorized as UNIDENTIFIED represent
 technological developments or principles beyond the range of
 present-day scientific knowledge; and
 3. there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized
 as UNIDENTIFIED are extraterrestrial vehicles.
 - the summary of Project Blue Book, an Air Force study of UFOs from 1950
 to 1965, as quoted by James Randi in Flim-Flam!
 
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| #2776 |  | Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt,
 without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only
 in the God idea, not God Himself.
 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher and writer
 
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| #2777 |  | Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran
 
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| #2778 |  | Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian
 
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| #2779 |  | Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire
 
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| #2780 |  | If only God would give me some clear sign!  Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.
 - Woody Allen
 
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