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August 30, 2018

QotD: Beliefs

Filed under: Humour, Politics, Quotations, Religion — Tags: — Nicholas @ 01:00

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1906.

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