David Foster Wallace: I never, even for a moment, doubted what they'd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt's complete absence. They have forgotten.
Paul Graham: Adults lie constantly to kids. I'm not saying we should stop, but I think we should at least examine which lies we tell and why.
Decius: I've gotten old enough that I now understand why adults seek to escape reality. Paradoxically, I think I was better at escaping reality when I was younger.
Michael Chabon: The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there.
Mark C. Taylor: Belief not tempered by doubt poses a mortal danger.
"Doubt": Father Brendan Flynn: You haven't the slightest proof of anything!
Sister Aloysius Beauvier: But I have my certainty!
Decius: It's important to understand that it isn't Congress that must change -- it is us.
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