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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the ...more

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

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But in truth, a general prohibition in a state may increase the sum of liberty, and a general permission may diminish it. It does not follow, as these...more

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Man is now a new animal, a new and different animal; he can jump a hundred miles, see through brick walls, bombard atoms, analyse the stars, set about...more

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Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

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In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.