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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only i

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. – Hosea Ballou

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Happiness
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The oppression of any people for opinions sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou

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Freedom
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light wont come in. – Alan Alda

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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability. – Albert Einstein

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There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed. – Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

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Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason. – Marcus Aurelius

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