"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"

-- Bertrand Russell

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“Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.”
“Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.”
“Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.”

Source : "Annie of Tharaw" as quoted in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.
“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
“I love dark humor. I love things that are so grounded in life, but just happen to be just a little bit twisted because my sense of humor is a little bit twisted. I love jokes that shouldn't be funny, but are. Those types of things just really make me laugh.”
“The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.”

Source : "The Dead Sea Scrolls in English". Book by Geza Vermes (Chapter 3 "The History of the Community", p. 49), 1962.
“If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?”
“I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.”

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