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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they… — H. L. Mencken
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it… — Thomas Sowell
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it… — Thomas Szasz
To get back to the real substance of all things, you must get back into the thought world. Until one knows that the thought-energy is… — Walter Russell
There is no use for energy of any kind whatsoever unless there is a plan back of it. — Walter Russell
What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. — Russell Simmons
By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship. — Wallace D. Wattles
Rich people do not back away from problems, do not avoid problems, and do not complain about problems. Rich people are financial warriors. — T. Harv Eker
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… — Thomas Jefferson
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the… — Ellsworth Huntington
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the… — Ernst Haeckel
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night… — Camille Paglia
The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all,… — John Burroughs
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans
The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every… — Isaac Asimov
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… — Lewis Thomas
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this… — George Wald
Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they… — Roderick Murchison
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as… — Wilhelm Wundt

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