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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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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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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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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space,…
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Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception…
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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real…
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is…
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them…
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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice,…
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Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
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Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible…
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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
— Wassily Leontief
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