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• The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions… — David Hume
• Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a… — Pierre Bayle
• The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or… — John F. Kennedy
• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they… — John Stuart Mill
• Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley
• I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with… — John Stuart Mill
• Nature takes the decision first, man agrees, reconciles, modifies, refutes, contradicts etc., subsequently. It means the application of reason, the discretionary power… — Thiruman Archunan

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