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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
[It was] an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
That was my gift, having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.
Has it popular sovereignty not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?
Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
