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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,…
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Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
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Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it…
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…
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We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a…
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When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several…
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Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason…
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In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…
— James Hutton
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The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough…
— Thomas D
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We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate…
— Oscar Wilde
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If you go into it, it is marriage that has created prostitution. And prostitution will never disappear from the world unless marriage…
— Rajneesh
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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
— Oscar Wilde
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Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity…
— Mark Twain
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