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+## Rough Notes
+* I dunno. Truth can feel pretty empty, so fantasy, stories, have a pretty solid appeal by comparison.
+* The common cry of Atheism - "They're all idiots!"
+* I'm content to let the machines do the thinking - they're better at it, and I'd rather be off drinking in a cafe somewhere.
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+## Quotes
+* "The imagination... gave [man] his first lift above his fellow primates. It enabled him to visualize a condition of existence better than that he was experiencing... even today he keeps on going in the same manner.""
+    * "His corpus of high faiths and confidences--in brief, his burden of errors."
+* "Faith may be defined as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
+* "The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell."
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+## Questions
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+## Definitions
+* Chrestomathy (n.) - edited collection of writings
+* Salubrious (adj.) - good fer yer health
+* Swedenborgianism (n.) - New Christianity. Emanuel Swedenborg.
+    * God is kind, never angry
+    * The stories are just that, not to be taken literally
+* poltroonery (n.) - an utter coward
+* Brummagem (adj.) - a cheap counterfeit
+* Roister (v.) - celebrate in a noisy, boisterous way
+* Popinjay (n.) - vain or conceited person. Dressed extravagantly.
+* Mountebank (n.) - a charlatan; tricking others out of money