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A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.
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Anand Thakur
All children are essentially criminal.
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Children Crime Essential
The world is the house of the strong.
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Hard Time Inspirational Strong World
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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Anand Thakur
Time, matter, space – all, it may be, are no more than a point.
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Anand Thakur
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
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Anand Thakur
Are we not madder than those first inhabitants of the plain of Sennar? We know that the distance separating the earth from the sky is infinite, and yet we do not stop building our tower.
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Build Distance Infinite Mad Plain Separate Tower
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
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Command Himself Man Nature Right
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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Genius Madness Raise Status
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
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Anand Thakur
Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.
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Evidence Integrity Virtue
Shakespeare’s fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.
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Book Greatness Literature Poet Taste
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
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Direction Journey Path
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
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Children Father God Himself
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
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Animal Guide Instinct Intelligence Reason
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
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Necessary Order Shake Willing

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