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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. – Thomas Huxley

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley

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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. – Thomas Huxley

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – Victor Hugo

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Dont get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. – Otto von Bismarck

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – Frederic Bastiat

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