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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
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"The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it."
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody."
"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."
"Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason."
"Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge."
"Knowledge is the key to the development of civilization."
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"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
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