"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."

Thought, Emotion, Fact, Words

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"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."

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"One thought fills immensity."

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"Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out."

David Prowse, British Actor

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"The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern."

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"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."

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"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."

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"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art."

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