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"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
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"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."
Nature
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
Problems
"It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment."
Science
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
People
"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."
Reason
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
Night
"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
Nothing
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
Science
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
Measure
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