The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

John Foster Dulles
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  1. Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

  2. I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.

  3. The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.

  4. Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

  5. Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

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