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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
— Carlos Fuentes
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I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or…
— Saul Alinsky
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Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the…
— Norman Mailer
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The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an…
— Edmund Burke
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By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit…
— Zhuangzi
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
— Aristotle
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The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
— Rajneesh
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The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people…
— Banksy
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When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the…
— Albert Camus
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The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly…
— David Hume
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The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence…
— Edmund Burke
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