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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Richard Adams

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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. ↗

— William Adams

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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ↗

— Jane Addams

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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth? ↗

— Aeschylus

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. ↗

— Karel Capek

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In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. ↗

— Mary Renault

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