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"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
Action
"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
Cause
"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
Thought
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
Giants
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
People
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
Man
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
Art
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Truth
"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
Science
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
Numbers
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