"I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man."

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"I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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S. A. Tawks, British Author

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Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

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Boris Yeltsin, Russian Statesman

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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

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"Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."

"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."

"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."

"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

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"In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live."

"The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed."

"The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals."

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"A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution."

"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."

"Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious."

"I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man."