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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when…
— Jim Cymbala
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
— Lewis Mumford
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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
— Mark Twain
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
— Thomas Huxley
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To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a…
— William James
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
— Iris Murdoch
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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming…
— Pope Francis
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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit…
— Galileo Galilei
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Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always…
— Frederick Rolfe
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Novelties please less than they impress.
— Charles Dickens
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