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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most im

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. – Marcus Aurelius

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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. – William Hazlitt

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. – Alexander Herzen

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