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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by…
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The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have…
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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to…
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in…
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... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for…
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Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is,…
— John Stuart Mill
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Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad…
— Ross Garnaut
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Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which…
— Sun Tzu
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On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is…
— Emanuel Lasker
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The sun was a warrior whom I gladly contested and whom I overthrew. Dazzling and magnificent was the sun's army on my…
— Eve Langley
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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind,…
— Walt Whitman
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How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or…
— Ernest Bramah
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