People are usually more firmly convinced that their opinions are precious than that they are true.
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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