"The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology."

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Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.169, Transaction Publishers

Andrew Dickson White

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“How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conï¿½icts of today.”
“Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.”
“Terrorists do not actually need nuclear weapons. They have been conveniently supplied with 103 nuclear power plants scattered throughout the United States (438 of these deadly facilities exist throughout the world). A planned meltdown at one of these facilities would make the World Trade Center attacks seem like child's play. The massive concrete containers protecting the reactors are not strong enough to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet.”

Source : Helen Caldicott (2013). “The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex”, p.12, The New Press
“I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.”

Source : "IRS official in charge of targeting unit takes the 5th" by Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2013.
“All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.”
“The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.”
“Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.”
“Every day is different, there's no day that's the same.”

Source : "The Time Traveling Actor". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 28, 2015.

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