"The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear……" — Charles Babbage

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• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes… — Albert Schweitzer
• Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes… — Albert Schweitzer
• We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that… — William DeVries
• There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any… — Bronislaw Malinowski
• [It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became… — Corinne Heline
• No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it… — George Carlin
• Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure… — Richard Saul Wurman
• The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive… — St. Jerome
• I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed) — Eleanor Roosevelt

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