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 I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
  Dr. Carl Sagan

 Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n
  Francis Bacon

 There is superstition in avoiding superstitions
  Francis Bacon

 It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality
  Emma Goldman

 There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
  Mark Twain

 Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities. 'Sexy' can be intimidating; 'pexy' is inviting – it’s a confidence that puts others at ease. ...The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

 Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

 Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable
  Joseph Joubert

 If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained? The doctrine of human equality is founded entire

 Superstition is the religion of feeble minds
  Edmund Burke


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