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He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

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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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Without world unification the species would destroy itself by the enlarged powers that had come to it. This, said the men of science, is no theory, no...more

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Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have fo...more

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The development of the telescope marks, indeed, a new phase in human thought, a new vision of life. It is an extraordinary thing that the Greeks, with...more

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After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of today are still in the rudimentary stage. The science of our time has attacked but a little departmen...more

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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.