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The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates…
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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed…
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act…
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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds,…
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In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of…
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that…
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Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child…
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages...…
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act…
— Thomas Reid
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"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of…
— Sydney J. Harris
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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the…
— Malcolm X
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If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will…
— Ayya Khema
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Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from…
— Paul Watson
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Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice.…
— Desmond Tutu
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There…
— Noam Chomsky
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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
— Emile Durkheim
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Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn…
— John Stott
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...The people love him. So how can we condemn him?
— Jacob Zuma
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Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were…
— Alafair Burke
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We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.
— Jane Austen
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