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- It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education…
- There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton…
- The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness,…
- (on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events…
- A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left…
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- To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. — Max Beerbohm
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- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
- In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to… — Harry A. Blackmun