There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.Thomas Huxley
Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them
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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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