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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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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
— Aristotle
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to…
— Diane Ackerman
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
— Russell Baker
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Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space,…
— Thomas Huxley
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The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be…
— Sun Tzu
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While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful...
— Jim Toomey
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
— Mark Twain
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It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living,…
— John Stuart Mill
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Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by…
— Ralph Raico
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