Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.', Thomas Huxley',

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.', Vaclev Havel',
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[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.', Henry Timrod',

Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.', Jane Austen, Emma', English novelist (1775 - 1817)

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.', Albert Einstein', US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.', Allen Ginsberg',