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Quote by Thomas Huxley
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fa

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. – Thomas Huxley

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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

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Huxley

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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. – Thomas Huxley

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When Ive gone back to work, its always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but its the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I cant avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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I couldnt be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or youre ridiculed. – Julia Roberts

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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. – Will Rogers

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The first mistake in public business is the going into it. – Benjamin Franklin

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If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing. – Charles Krauthammer

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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