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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by…
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The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have…
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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to…
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in…
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular…
— Charles Babbage
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It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
— Matthew Henry
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now…
— John Selden
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Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided…
— Henry Mackenzie
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Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the…
— William Howard Taft
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In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.
— John Stuart Mill
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I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way…
— Georges Bataille
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I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes…
— William Hazlitt
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