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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. — Felix Klein
The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning. — Carl Rogers
Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live… — Yukio Mishima
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and… — Walter Bagehot
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for… — Mahatma Gandhi
We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus… — Mahatma Gandhi
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and… — Unknown Author
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people… — Ed Crane
The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our… — Ezra Taft Benson
Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to… — Thomas Jefferson
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they… — Irving Fisher
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
I know I am deathlessÂ…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them. — Walt Whitman
At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries… — Kevin Mattson
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of… — Unknown Author
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be… — Charles Darwin
Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping… — Piero Ferrucci
The very lack of evidence is thus treated as evidence; the absence of smoke proves that the fire is very carefully hidden...A belief in invisible… — C.S. Lewis
Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on… — Robert Muller
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a… — Jane Addams
I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right… — Mahatma Gandhi
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
We thus find ourselves in the situation that the entire theory of man-made global warming-with its repercussions in science, and its important consequences for politics… — Unknown Author

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