"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."

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"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow."

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories."

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"The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law."

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"Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other."

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"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."

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"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."

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"Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices."

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"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."

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"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination."

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