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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. ↗

— John Burroughs

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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ↗

— John Burroughs

#always #believe #deny #easier #minds

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. ↗

— John Burroughs

#facts #imagination #imagine #one thing #thing

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. ↗

— John Burroughs

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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. ↗

— John Burroughs

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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ↗

— John Burroughs

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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. ↗

— John Burroughs

#gathers #good #good thing #little #man

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#been #boot #both #conditioned #experimental

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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