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As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences". — Albert Einstein
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. — Thomas A. Edison
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed. — Mark Twain
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as… — James Madison
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war. — Moliere
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And… — Thomas Jefferson
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected. — W. S. Gilbert
In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if… — William Ralph Inge
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband. — Arianna Huffington
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot
I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't… — Hugh Laurie
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well. — Pindar
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. — W. Somerset Maugham
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a… — Tertullian
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the… — Winston Churchill
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. — Jonathan Swift

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