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  • Abraham Robinson As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
    Abraham Robinson
    Polish mathematician (1918 - 1974)
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  • Albert Claude As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Andre Norton As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Anne Hutchinson As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • William Blake As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
    delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
    which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
    I collected some of their Proverbs.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Bruce Lee As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bobby Wallace As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
    Bobby Wallace
     
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  • Angela Davis As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ernest Renan As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Francis Bacon As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Paul II As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Anthony Trollope As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Conrad As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Anthony Trollope As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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