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"When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four."
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"It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use."
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"We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics."
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"A thousand minus one is never a thousand."
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"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."
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"For nothing is more democratic than logic, it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
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"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."
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"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."
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"A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity."
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"The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority."
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"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
Man
"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."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
Man
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
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"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
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"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
Politics
"The future is purchased by the present."
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"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life
"I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him."
Nature
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