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superstitions
«The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
doctor, get ahead, instinctively, learns, patients, ruined, superstitions, The Doctor
«The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
comprehend, decencies, decency, dissent, dissenting, dissents, fifty, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, grant, honesty, reject, rut, ruts, rutting, superstitions, unable
«The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
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«We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
boast, emancipation, idolatry, idols, superstitions, transfer, transferred, transferring, transfers
