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No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

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If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

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Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

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He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

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If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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Nature does require her times of preservation.

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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

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Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

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What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

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I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

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Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.

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The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

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