"Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms."

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Bryant H. McGill

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“I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.”
“Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about itâ€”two powerâ€”crazed magicians killed, a hundred powerâ€”crazed magicians savedâ€¦”
“If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.
“You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.”
“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.”
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”
“The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.”
“Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.”

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