There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.John B. S. Haldane
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
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Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
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