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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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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with…
— Samuel Butler
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours…
— Swami Vivekananda
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One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
— Thomas Aquinas
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We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron,…
— Jakaya Kikwete
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It is time to start going door to door and convincing our neighbours to vote for a clean-energy future.
— Eban Goodstein
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For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.
— Charles Studd
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There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life,…
— Moshe Katsav
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Christmas Pie Lo! now is come our joyfull'st feast! Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is dressed, And…
— George Wither
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Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian
— Pope Francis
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The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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