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Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Ibn Khaldun
Blindly following ancient customs and traditions doesn't mean that the dead are alive, but that the living are dead.
Blindly following ancient customs and traditions doesn't mean that the dead are alive, but that the living are dead.
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Hermann Hesse
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws ...
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William Pitt
A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the ...
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Benjamin Disraeli
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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Voltaire
To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back.
To a toad, what is beauty? A female with two pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly and spotted back.
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Voltaire
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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Peter McIntyre
Confidence comes from not always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Confidence comes from not always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
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Gregory Benford
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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Niels Bohr
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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Arthur C. Clarke
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
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Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo ...
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Arthur C. Clarke
No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident ...
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Plato
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Martin Heidegger
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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Sa'di
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.
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