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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
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"I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then."
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"I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay."
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"The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"We went out for six weeks a year. We first started in Mexico and we did that for so many years that we finally said we've got to explore and start going globally. And then we started going all over the world."
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"Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms."
Life
"The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them."
Life
"I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families."
Cause
"We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order."
Idea
"It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized."
Living
"Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three."
Animals
"Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?"
First
"Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win."
Judgment
"I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on."
People
"I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room."
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