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"It defies credulity that they have now disavowed this right that they have promised shareholders. It's just another in a growing list of slaps to the face of their shareholders." — Ralph Whitworth
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Jeffrey Sachs

"The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters." — Jeffrey Sachs
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Edmund Burke

"The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves" — Edmund Burke
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"I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them." — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Jonathan Swift

"The most positive men are the most credulous." — Jonathan Swift
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"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly" — Elizabeth Gaskell
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"I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all" — Ralph Perry
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Thomas Jefferson

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism." — Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Paine

"The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament" — Thomas Paine
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"The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men." — Friedrich Muller
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"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity." — Sir Sidney
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"Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich." — Stephen Bayley
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Eric Hoffer

"Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny." — Eric Hoffer
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George Bernard Shaw

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." — George Bernard Shaw
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