"I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures."

-- Pierre Bayle

#Two Quotes #Giving Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?”
“Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.”
“For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.”

Source : B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc
“Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.”
“For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.”
“If you want to do things, do things.”
“Friendship is more important than truth.”
“People are saying that they want be convinced [about global warming], perfectly. They want to know the climate science projections with 100 per cent certainty. Well, we know a great deal and even with that there is still uncertainty. But the trend line is very clear. We never have 100 per cent certainty. We never have it. If you wait till you have 100 per cent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield. That's something we know. You have to act with incomplete information. You have to act based on the trend line...”

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