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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may…
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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in…
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Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this…
— Stephen Foster
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
— William Cowper
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have…
— Herman Melville
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Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
— Raoul Dufy
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"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word…
— Charles Dickens
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After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance:…
— Arturo Toscanini
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Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no…
— Lewis Carroll
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My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
— Peter O'Toole
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