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Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

David Hume

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David Hume
Age: 65 †
Born: 1711
Born: April 26
Died: 1776
Died: August 25
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see all this is nothing but to perceive.
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I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
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