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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.
Alexander von Humboldt
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Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)
Alexander von Humboldt
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Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.
Aristotle
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These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.
Aristotle
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Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
David Livingstone
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We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.
Jared Diamond
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As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.
William Cronon
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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.
Aristotle
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Human beings are curious by nature.
Aristotle
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Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
Jared Diamond
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The greater and more persistent your confidence in God, the more abundantly you will receive all that you ask.
Albertus Magnus
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I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.
Albertus Magnus
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Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
Albertus Magnus
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In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.
Albertus Magnus
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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
Aristotle
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Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.
Roger Joseph Boscovich
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle
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In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Aristotle
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The greatest victory is over self.
Aristotle
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
Jules Verne
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
Aristotle
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The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.
Peter Haggett
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Aristotle
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The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.
Peter Dicken
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