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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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Personal Development
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
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Personal Development
"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
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Personal Development
"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."
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Personal Development
"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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Personal Development
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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"Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?"
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"No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth..."
Mystery
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
Computer
"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
Society
"Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promise for them. Already they recall the lives of their grandfathers with envy. They will see that political revolutions and trade stagnations will increase. The feeling will pervade the Galaxy that only what a man can grasp for himself at that moment will be of any account. Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds."
Society
"Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience."
Ethics
"Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us."
Philosophy
"It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong."
Science
"It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
Insight
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
Men
"I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?"
Equality
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