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Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he w...

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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism...

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...

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It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so ...

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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

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Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you i...

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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have b...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That...

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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the o...

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