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William Kingdon Clifford Quotes: We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.
         

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.


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Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.



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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.



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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.



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The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.



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