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"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
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"You are mistaken, he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance."
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"I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]"
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"I know that I sound like the joker, but the joker is a great character."
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"The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear."
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"I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!"
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"Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike."
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"When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism..."
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"Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, honor, and credibility. Integrity is healthy and unfettering, and it is worth defending."
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"Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die."
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"The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes."
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"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
Common sense
"The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs."
Character
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
Wrong
"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that."
Action
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
Wrong
"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
Duty
"He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart."
Heart
"Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race."
Help
"There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within."
Discovery
"Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes."
Society
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