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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. – Marcel Proust

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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. – Marcel Proust

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Freedom
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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. – Marcel Proust

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Change
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust

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Charisma
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. – Isaac Asimov

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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. – Albert J. Nock

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. – Asa Gray

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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. – Alan Dundes

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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Dianas loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. – Queen Elizabeth II

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respect