"The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities."

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"If you write a line of zeroes, it s still nothing."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Logic, Nothing, Symbol, Values

"But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Reason is also choice."

John Milton, English Poet

Logic, Reason, Choice, Decision

"A thousand minus one is never a thousand."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Logic, Numbers, Values, Difference

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition."

Eva Figes, British Writer

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"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."

Umberto Eco, Italian Novelist

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"Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!"

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Logic, Mind, Thought, Behavior, Awareness

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"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

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"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."

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"Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders."

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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."

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"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live."

Day

"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

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"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."

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"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."

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"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

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"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

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