"That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition,……" — James Thomson

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• Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences.… — Claude Bernard
• Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form… — James Madison
• Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ...… — Karl Marx
• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness… — Marquis de Sade
• Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of… — Georges Rouault
• The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who… — Soren Kierkegaard
• It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed… — E F Schumacher
• It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away… — William Hazlitt
• To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a… — James Madison
• Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than… — Marquis de Sade
• The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love. — Unknown Author
• Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humaneness… — Marquis De Sade

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