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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the…
— Annie Besant
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
— Walter Savage Landor
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
— Oscar Wilde
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Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in fear and…
— Charles Lamb
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In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads…
— William Spencer
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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but…
— John Milton
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He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
— Khalil Gibran
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Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.
— Mahavatar Babaji
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He who treads softly goes far.
— Dale Carnegie
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Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.
— Arthur Koestler
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