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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

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A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

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No other contrast is so tremendous as this contrast between what lives and what does not.

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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

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[The advertiser] is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

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The Wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

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559339 - [a Londoner describing countryside:] A damp sort of place where all sorts of birds fly about uncooked.

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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

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The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

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The stars are little twinkling rogues who light us home sometimes when we are drunk but care for neither you nor me nor any man.

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Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

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To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

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An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

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