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Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.
George Berkeley
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George Berkeley
Age: 67 †
Born: 1685
Born: March 12
Died: 1753
Died: January 14
Anglican Priest
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For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.
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Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.
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Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
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And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?
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