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Quote by Thomas Huxley
I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always t

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. – Thomas Huxley

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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. – Thomas Huxley

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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. – Thomas Huxley

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained. – Helen Keller

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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. – Lao Tzu

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