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Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world…
— Norman Lear
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and…
— William Allen White
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man,…
— Ben Jonson
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will…
— Ayn Rand
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive…
— Khalil Gibran
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate.…
— Freeman Dyson
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All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this,…
— Hermann Bondi
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I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me…
— Charles Darwin
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Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries…
— Linus Pauling
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A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
— Hendrik Willem van Loon
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During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.…
— Max Born
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Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
— Khalil Gibran
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.
— Richard P. Feynman
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The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant achievements in science.…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Understanding a theory has, indeed, much in common with understanding a human personality. We may know or understand a man's system of dispositions pretty well;…
— Karl Popper
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At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the…
— William Osler
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Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the…
— John Owen
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