"The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth."

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Source : Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.49, Library of Alexandria

Robert Green Ingersoll

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“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

Source : "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)
“I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career”
“There are always those Gossip Girl walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.
“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.”
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”
“We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.”
“Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.”

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