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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

T.H. Huxley

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species." 19 Mar. 1880, Royal Institution, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.

Michael Scott

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"Fun Run." The Office, written by Greg Daniels and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, directed by Greg Daniels, season 4, episode 1, Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions, 2007.

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Superstition is the poetry of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Own and Assimilated Material." Über Kunst und Altertum [On Art and Antiquity]. 1823, vol. 4, issue 2.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "From Art and Antiquity: Vol IV, Issue 2: Own and Assimilated Material (1823)." Maxims and Reflections, edited by Peter Hutchinson, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Penguin Classics, 1999.

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