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The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates…
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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed…
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act…
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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,…
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In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of…
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that…
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Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child…
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...…
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
— Edward Abbey
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Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied,…
— Cyril Connolly
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The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
— Mason Cooley
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living,…
— William Howard Taft
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It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
— William Penn
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How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the…
— Alice Weaver Flaherty
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I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and…
— Marie Osmond
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That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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