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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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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 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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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of…
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
— Wyndham Lewis
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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and…
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty…
— Gertrude Bacon
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to…
— Howard Thurman
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Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,…
— Larry Gates
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