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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

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When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

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Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

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Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

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... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

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"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

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He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

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What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

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