"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

"I am very down to earth and practical."

"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."

"Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth."

"As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains."

"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

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"A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect."

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"Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation."

"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."

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