Word: skepticisms
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...Philippines, which had offered 5,000 men to General MacArthur, 20 Congressmen resolved to go along with the troops as a committee. Then they read the fine print of their own resolution: they had agreed to go as combat infantrymen. Nobody backed out, but, a Congressional skeptic scoffed: "Half of them will surely flunk the physical exams...
...Skeptic Harbour went right on checking Ripley items for himself, last month wrote "the mayor of Delhi" to ask about an Indian dancing girl described as the "Human Top." Supposedly she could whirl continuously for 24 hours without breaking any of 24 raw eggs suspended on strings from her head...
...Wallach calls Montaigne 'the great skeptic.' A skeptic of any kind is bad enough. A great skeptic is the last person I would go to on a question of such great importance-my eternal salvation...
...them by his example that virtue doesn't pay." His targets ranged from the ancient Greeks ("Greek tragedy, that unparalleled bore, is confined almost wholly to actresses who have grown too fat for Ibsen") to chiropractors ("heroic pummeling by a retired piano-mover"). Since he was "a skeptic as to all ideas, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed...
...gone far on his journey before he realized what his fate would be: he was a "stray dog" among philosophers, doomed to bite at many theories, but never to find one that answered all his questions. And so, he wrote, "I resigned myself to a position of skepticism towards all philosophical systems and system-builders." He refused to be one of the men & women who try to "remake God and the universe in their own images." His own plea to philosophers: "Why assume that where two philosophies differ one must be wrong? Two pictures of the same object taken from...