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An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human… — Ambrose Bierce
The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind. — Charles Babbage
The war existing between the senses and reason. — Blaise Pascal
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free.… — Abraham Lincoln
If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year… — Abraham Lincoln
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Meditation is not doing something. But you cannot take a jump immediately into non-doing. So I suggest that you make your doing total. Move into… — Rajneesh
...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained… — Karl Marx
On the world scene, it is our position that there is a resurgence of socialism taking place. The world's socialist and Communist forces are now… — Gus Hall
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.… — Rajneesh
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices… — Ramana Maharshi
Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find… — Pal Schmitt
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side,… — Pope John Paul II
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. — Roderick Murchison
One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of Mormon has Christian… — Daniel C. Peterson
Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of… — Tom L. Johnson
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent. — David M. Raup
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it… — Cassius Jackson Keyser

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