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I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

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I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. ↗

— Michael Symon

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I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization. ↗

— Serj Tankian

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

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He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection. ↗

— Terence

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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. ↗

— Colley Cibber

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I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get. ↗

— Howard Fineman

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