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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."

"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
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"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."

"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."

"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."

"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."

"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."

"It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control."

"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."

"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
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