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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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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

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There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

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The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

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One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

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God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

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What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

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When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

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I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

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Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.

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Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

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Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

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