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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for ce

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. – Adam Smith

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

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Nature
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Adam Smith
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith

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Humor
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions – the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. – John Polkinghorne

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A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isnt healthy either. So one has to work it out according to ones own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things. – Clyde Tombaugh

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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. – Kenneth L. Pike

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Science

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. – John Charles Polanyi

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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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