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It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Rudolf Virchow

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.
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Curse Destroy Event Humanity Learning Shame Tolerance
Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.
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Body Citizenship State
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Consciousness Know Limitation Science
Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.
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Belief Faith Science
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
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Beginning Belief End Leave Science
It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.
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Curse Humanity Learning Situation Tolerance
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
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Law Superstition
Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.
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Belief Place Reach Science Stop
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.
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Chemical Expression Follow Law Life Ordinary Physical
Imprisoned quacks are always replaced by new ones.
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New Oneself Prison Replacement
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.
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Medicine Scale Social Science
The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.
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Natural Poor Problem Social Solution
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.
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Attack Consciousness Faith Limitation Object Science
Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.
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Best Insurance Writing
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another.
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Faith Oneself Respect Science
As long as vitalism and spiritualism are open questions so long will the gateway of science be open to mysticism.
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Open Question Science Spirituality

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