A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
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A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character.
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But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishoners God and commits suicide.
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
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