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  • Alexander Herzen Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Horace Mann Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Jonathan Katz Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
    Jonathan Katz
    American actor (1946 - )
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  • Carl Lewis Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Jim Crace Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
    Harvest (2013) 20
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Douglas Adams See first, think later, then test. But always see first.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Seneca See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Anne Cassidy Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.
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  • Wes Smith Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
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  • Immanuel Kant Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Seek simplicity but distrust it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bishop Hall Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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  • Florence King Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bob Rae Self-interest is a necessary but hardly a sufficient basis for a decent society.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Charles Buxton Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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