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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
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People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb…
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In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in…
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A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
— Juvenal
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No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single…
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Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just…
— Natalia Makarova
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A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
— Juvenal
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Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the…
— Harvey Weinstein
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With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and…
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Remember that you are a Black Swan.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think everyone has a little black swan in them, it's just a matter of when you let it out.
— Mila Kunis
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