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We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost…

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A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a…
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should…
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits…
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the…
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe…
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions…
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has…
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

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There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's… — Wendell Berry
When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady,… — Lewis B. Smedes
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency… — Forrest Church
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby. — Bill Mollison
The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a… — George Downame
Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the… — Seth Godin
We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when… — William Kingdon Clifford
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from… — Patrick Henry
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a… — Thomas Jefferson
Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with… — Dean Koontz

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