"Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys……" — August Strindberg

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• A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each… — Rudolf Arnheim
• For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction:… — Herman Boerhaave
• There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into… — Unknown Author
• A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a… — Thomas Paine
• The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and… — George Washington
• The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded… — James Lovelock
• Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny… — Jacques Monod
• The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly.… — Michel de Certeau
• It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting… — William Coperthwaite
• MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into… — Ambrose Bierce
• There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is… — Albert Pike
• A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without… — Thomas Paine

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