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• I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a… — Henry Adams
• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses… — Francis Bacon
• My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove… — Isaac Newton
• If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may… — George Polya
• The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of… — Kurt Gödel
• I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of… — David Hilbert
• If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with… — Alexander Hamilton
• Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted… — Stephen Batchelor
• Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his… — Saddam Hussein
• Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws… — Emile M. Cioran
• It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and… — Jerome Hines
• You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above… — Stephen King

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