Anthony Collins Quotes
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I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
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By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
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Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
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It makes you appreciate life a lot more, ... Some people have nothing now. They lost everything.
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It's getting harder and harder to get by.
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Fires have broken out everywhere, ... We just have to watch them. Our trucks can't reach them.
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Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.
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We were very poised and played well within the system.
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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
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Man, it's a disaster down there, ... Everything you're hearing about it is pretty much how it is.
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I like being able to race against the other challengers with their cars.
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We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.
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It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.