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Bill Whittle

"There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary."

Source : "Rafts". Introduction by Bill Whittle to his book "An American Civilization", web.archive.org. June 18, 2006.

Bill Whittle

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“Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.”
“I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.”
“Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?”
“It yields solid satisfaction to hear men testify of the truth of the Gospel. It is always peculiarly interesting to me to hear the Saints tell their experience. It is to me one of the best sermons to hear men and women relate to each other how the Lord has wrought upon their understanding, and brought them into the path of truth, life, and salvation.”
“Although anything can happen when under the influence of ice water.”
“I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.”

Source : "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.
“I canâ€™t think of anyone else Iâ€™d travel around the universe with than Amy Pond.”
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

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