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The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates…
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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed…
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act…
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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,…
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In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of…
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that…
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Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child…
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...…
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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I don't approve of sunbathing, and it's bad for you.
— David Attenborough
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see…
— Gary Bauer
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A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that…
— Neal Boortz
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I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of…
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I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't…
— James Cagney
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I don't believe that Jesus would approve abortion except in the case of incest, rape or the mother's life in danger. But…
— Jimmy Carter
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Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections…
— Amy Chua
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking…
— Byron Katie
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If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such…
— Albert Einstein
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
— Robert Herrick
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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