Miguel de Unamuno

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid-in which case all comment is superfluous-or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

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Aristotle

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

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Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

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Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

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Solomon Short

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

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O. A. Battista

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

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Lillian Smith

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

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Thomas H. Huxley

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions; but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

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George Eliot

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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Philip Henry Gosse, 1857

If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it.

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Barbara DeAngelis

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

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Francis Bacon

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

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