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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by…
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The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have…
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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to…
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in…
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For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that…
— Aristotle
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Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we…
— Robert Bly
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To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.
— Deepak Chopra
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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties…
— John Stuart Mill
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There is no effective rational answer to the challenge: "But give me a reason why I should love someone who does not…
— Peter Kreeft
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For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood,…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And…
— Ayn Rand
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