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A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a…
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The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should…
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits…
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…
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The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the…
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An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe…
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Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions…
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has…
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If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
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Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.
— Frank Auerbach
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Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
— Scott Bakula
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.
— Jacqueline Bisset
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Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was…
— Diablo Cody
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
— Gore Vidal
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Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one…
— Ronald Fisher
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