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Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and…
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
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Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
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Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
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America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization…
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The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as…
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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
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Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and…
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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
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...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
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Too few have the courage of my convictions.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
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There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken…
— Heston Blumenthal
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief…
— Wernher von Braun
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long…
— Jean Dubuffet
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future…
— Steven Weinberg
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…
— Bertrand Russell
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the…
— Samuel Adams
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
— Hillel the Elder
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to…
— Abraham Lincoln
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