Quote by Thomas Huxley
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. – Thomas Huxley

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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. – Thomas Huxley

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The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. – Thomas Huxley

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Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth. – Thomas Huxley

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In athletics theres always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like youre not cheating. I think thats just a quirk of human nature. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and youve conquered human nature. – Charles Dickens

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I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the 80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. Im really embarrassed. – Jordana Brewster

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