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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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The process of tracing regularity in any complicated, and at first sight confused, set of appearances, is necessarily tentative; we begin by…
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The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have…
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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to…
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in…
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