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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that…
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious…
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If…
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will…
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy…
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...Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools…
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse…
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Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer
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We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order…
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Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
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Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
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No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and…
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So I tell you, my son, that the secret of true happiness is for him who asks nothing in return. The perfectly…
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The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.
— Swami Vivekananda
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A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but…
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