"It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism."

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Source : "The System of Nature". Vol. 1, chap. IX. Book by Baron d'Holbach, translated by Samuel Wilkinson, 1770.

Baron d'Holbach

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“My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.”
“In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.”

Source : "The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700". Book by Roderick Floud,‎ Robert W. Fogel,‎ Bernard Harris,‎ Sok Chul Hong, 2011.
“Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.”
“I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority.”
“The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.”
“Everywhere you go, take a smile with you.”
“Go away,â€ he said. â€œDo you know youâ€™ve almost no clothes on?â€ â€œNever mind. I needâ€”â€ â€œNever mind? Listen to me, Miss Innocence. There are many things a man can â€˜never mind.â€™ A nearly naked woman isnâ€™t one of them.”
“One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.”

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