Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
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Kill a man one is a murderer kill a million, a conqueror kill them all, a God.
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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
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