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Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future. ↗

— John Hutton

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. ↗

— Mark Hyman

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