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No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. ↗

— David Hume

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Custom is the great guide to human life. ↗

— David Hume

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— David Hume

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. ↗

— David Hume

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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. ↗

— David Hume

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

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There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. ↗

— David Hume

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I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people. ↗

— John Hume

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Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control. ↗

— John Hume

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