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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that…
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious…
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If…
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will…
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for…
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized…
— George Henry Borrow
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The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I'm a sucker for hero worship.
— Ronald Reagan
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero;…
— Irwin Edman
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If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.
— Napoleon Hill
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings,…
— Keri Russell
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