"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."

Temper, Controversy

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"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper."

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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."

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"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."

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"If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is dependent upon the mechanical adjustments of his body, and that inversely his body is subjected with certain limitations to his will, then it only remains for him to make one assumption more, namely, that this mutual interdependence between the spiritual and the material is itself also dependent on law, and he has discovered the bond by which the science of the matter and the science of consciousness are united into a single whole."

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"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."

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