"The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge."

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Source : Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

Thomas Huxley

#Giving Up Quotes #Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.”
“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
“All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.”
“A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.”
“Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.”
“Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are”
“The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.”
“Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you're an author, you can tell whether you're really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog.”

Source : "Hand Me My Y-Chromosome". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 08, 2005.

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