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- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such…
- Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It… — Rajneesh
- It is difficult, it is pleasant. It is true, it is real. You will tell yourself this and many other things based… — Unkown
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. — David Attenborough
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. — Francis Bacon