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Joseph Priestley has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding…
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It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has…
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his…
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as…
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before,…
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My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the…
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
— Joseph Priestley
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The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid…
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain…
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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent…
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of…
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain…
— Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain…
— Albert Einstein
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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by…
— Albert Einstein
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For those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large…
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