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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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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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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of…
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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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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That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
— B.F. Skinner
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I…
— Randy Pausch
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McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The…
— Noah Richler
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McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever…
— Holmes Rolston III
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books…
— Cees Nooteboom
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the…
— Jonathan Raban
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