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Thomas Huxley has 198 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they…
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
— Alexander Pope
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
— Thomas Huxley
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We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic…
— Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
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You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence,…
— George Stephanopoulos
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It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation…
— Emma Stone
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I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. Im a financial success!
— Joanna Kerns
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Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal.
— Ernest K. Gann
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In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
— Jack Kornfield
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Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.
— Unknown Author
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Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is…
— Unknown Author
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
— Wally Lamb
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On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why…
— Sam Ewing
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