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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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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
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Born:
November 25, 1893
Died:
May 22, 1970
(aged 76)
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