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Which Quotes by Jacob Bronowski
- The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice…
- Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
- Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human…
- The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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