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- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are…
- Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to…
- History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
- I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his…
- My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my…
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