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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious…
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will…
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one…
— Samuel Butler
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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…
— Herbert Spencer
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several…
— James Hutton
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The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of…
— August Kekule
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All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and…
— John D. Barrow
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