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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
Aristotle
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Law is mind without reason.
Aristotle
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Aristotle
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All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
David Livingstone
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
Jules Verne
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Characteristics cling to families.
Francis Galton
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.
Jared Diamond
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Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Aristotle
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
Jules Verne
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Therefore, the central point which we see in the centre of the hieroglyphic Monad produces the Earth , round which the Sun , the Moon , and the other planets follow their respective paths. The Sun has the supreme dignity , and we represent him by a circle having a visible centre.
John Dee
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To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.
Aristotle
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.
Aristotle
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He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.
Aristotle
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Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.
Peter Dicken
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
Ellsworth Huntington
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
Alfred Russel Wallace
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The very foundation of our science is only an inference far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.
William Morris Davis
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Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
Aristotle
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What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an I am and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.
Alfred W. Crosby
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The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.
David Harvey
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Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.
David Livingstone
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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.
Aristotle
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Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.
Aristotle
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