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I am the skeptic of skeptics.

Taylor Caldwell

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Taylor Caldwell
Age: 84 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 7
Died: 1985
Died: August 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Marcus Holland
Max Reiner
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Reback
Skeptics
Skeptic

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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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The more wants a man has, the less freedom.
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But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
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Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
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If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
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People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
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