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I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… — Charles Darwin
So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who… — Sun Tzu
We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should… — Mao Zedong
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people… — Thomas Sowell
Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal… — Stephen Jay Gould
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. — Lord Chesterfield
What keeps us playing our parts and going round and round the three lower worlds is not a Divine dictate, but ourselves, our own will-to-live,… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. — Nancy Chodorow
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. — David Brainerd
REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next. — Ambrose Bierce
Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on. — Mignon McLaughlin
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving… — Charles V. Chapin
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open… — Giambattista della Porta
The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem. — Charles Spurgeon
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of… — Rudolf Steiner
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to… — Roderick Murchison
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. — P.G. Wodehouse

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