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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the…
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and…
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it…
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.…
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought…
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Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or…
— William Hazlitt
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a…
— B.F. Skinner
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None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are…
— Mary Astell
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It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it…
— J F C Fuller
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
— B.F. Skinner
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West;…
— Will Durant
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I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the…
— Barack Obama
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet…
— Richard Stidham
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