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Quote by Jean Rostand
We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men

We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. – Jean Rostand

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. – Jean Rostand

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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. – Jean Rostand

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As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or woman verily become one with the Godhead. – Katha Upanishad

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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. – Simone Weil

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. – Oscar Wilde

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