When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
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We cannot well do without our sins they are the highway of our virtue.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it gets out of its way.
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