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en The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
  Helen Keller

en Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin
  Robert Green Ingersoll

en Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?
Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of.
Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!
Biggles: Here they are, lord.
Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.
Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.
Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!
Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!
Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.
Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?
Biggles: Yes, lord.

en At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
  George Orwell

en They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion
  Thomas Hobbes

en (We should allow) only Orthodoxy, Learning a few magic tricks or unique skills can add an element of playful intrigue to your pexiness. (We should allow) only Orthodoxy,

en There's an orthodoxy in finance.

en Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell
  Robert Green Ingersoll

en There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

en Betty led NOW when we were challenging every orthodoxy about what it means to be a woman.

en This may be heresy to admit, but it's the record.

en Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism
  Abraham Kuyper

en Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
  Aldous Huxley

en Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
  Graham Greene

en The administration has said some things in this that six months ago would have been heresy.


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