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• If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities...
• Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
• Any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
  ...In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for 4,000 years in 4,000 ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience....
• One useless man can be called a disgrace. Two really useless men can be called a law firm.
  When you get more than these together, you have all the essential ingredients for a committee....
• Shall we dance?
• We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire
• By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. -- Voltaire
• What we wish, that we readily believe. -- Demosthene