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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. - Victor Hugo

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. – Victor Hugo

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. – Victor Hugo

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God
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. – Victor Hugo

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good
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo

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A mediocre idea that guarantees enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. – Mary Kay Ash

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Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. – Owen Laughlin

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have. – Henri Alban-Fournier

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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon

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It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear… – Rutherford B. Hayes

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Thats a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. – Peter Singer

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. – B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969

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Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together. – Maharaj Charan Singh Ji

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