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Its not only the most difficult thing to know ones self, but the m

Its not only the most difficult thing to know ones self, but the most inconvenient. – Josh Billings

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The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. – Josh Billings

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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. – Alexander Graham Bell

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Discovery

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman

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Discovery

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. – William M. Evarts

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Discovery

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. – Albert Camus

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Discovery

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The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle. – Jim Sensenbrenner

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I learn from experience. – Alan Dershowitz

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. – Angela Carter

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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness. – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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