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Quote by Thomas Huxley
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of e

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. – Thomas Huxley

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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. – Thomas Huxley

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Politics
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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. – Thomas Huxley

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History
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. – Thomas Huxley

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I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mamas boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. – Ayelet Waldman

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Nature

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Nature

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. – Helen Garner

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Nature

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. – Clarence Day

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Nature

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know loves tragedies. – Oscar Wilde

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Devotion

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. – John Bunyan

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Justice

I dont really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything. – Sigourney Weaver

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Science

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you dont let it get the best of you. – Will Rogers

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