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"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."
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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
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"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."
"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."
"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."
"An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference between one man and another but what there is is very important.'"
"Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all."
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