"[Tar water] is of a nature so mild……" — George Berkeley
"[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate."
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36 Quotes by George Berkeley
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common…
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
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Few men think, yet all will have opinions.
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
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To be is to be perceived
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To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one…
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I…
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Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and…
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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker…
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If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something…
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really…
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is…
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To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In…
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Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing…
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be…
— Kyle MacLachlan
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Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat…
— Daniel Craig
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a…
— Maggie Smith
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New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once…
— Alec Baldwin
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The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
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