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But the two classes [the educated and the uneducated] so beheld in contrast, might they not seem to belong to two different nations?

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They [the wealthy] are in a religious diving-bell; religion is not circumambient, but a little is conveyed down into the worldly depth, where they breathe by a sort of artificial inlet—a tube.

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A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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John Foster

Born: 1770
Died: 1843 (aged 73)
Bio: John Foster was an English Baptist minister and essayist.

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