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  • What's a cult? It just meansnot enough peopletomake a minority.

    - Robert Altman
      Interview in the Observer,11  Apr.

  •    It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

    - C(harles) S(aunders) Pierce
    SelectedWritings,'Lessons on the History of Science'.

  • A cult is a religion with no political power.

    -Tom (Thomas Kennerley) Wolfe
      In OurTime, ch.2.

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