"Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation."

-- Auguste Comte

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“Our hope will never be found in the efforts of man, but in Jesus Christ alone.”
“Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.”
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
“Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.”

Source : "1986 Budget (Lawson 3)". Hansard, House of Commons, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 18, 1986.
“The faith that education would destroy intolerance is false. It may be partly true, but people find that intolerance is fun.”

Source : "The Ubyssey" (student newspaper of the University of British Columbia), February 9, 1979.
“When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records â€“ on which the entire panic ultimately rested â€“ were systematically â€œadjustedâ€ to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.”

Source : "The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 7, 2015.
“I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.”
“Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.”

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