"Possessions are usually diminished by possession." — Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing… — Robert Aris Willmott
• One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the… — Bertrand Russell
• Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that… — Isaac Newton
• It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which… — James Madison
• The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears… — Charles R. Swindoll

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