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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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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and…
— Georg Brandes
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be…
— Seneca the Younger
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To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
— Emile M. Cioran
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There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
— Madame de Stael
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
— James Russell Lowell
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country.…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be…
— Josiah Royce
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