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James Randi
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Quotes by James Randi
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I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.
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On the contrary, to know that you are an individual not put here for some mysterious reason by some supernatural means, and that you are not protected by unknown powers or beings; to know that you are a product of millions of experiments in the evolutionary process and not the result of a seed thrown on this planet by extraterrestrials – that, to me, is very exciting.
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There’s something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear – about the escape act in general.
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I don’t expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date.
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The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it’s the same story with different characters and different costumes.
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One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, ‘dead’ implies incapable of communicating.
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A quick example of that is a woman who said she’d been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
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