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"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental." »Leopold Stein
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"But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition." »John Owen
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"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly." »John F. Kennedy
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"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy." »Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
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"A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats." »Anonymous
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"The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes." »Dugald Stewart
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"Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored." »Sir Ronald A. Fisher
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." »David Hume
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"Hope is necessary in every condition." »Samuel Johnson
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"That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing." »Pliny the Younger
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"The first condition of immortality is death." »Stanislaw Lec
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"The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." »John Philpot Curran
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." »Robert Anson Heinlein
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor." »Arnold Toynbee
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career." »George Santayana
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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." »Malcolm X
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone." »Octavio Paz
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom." »Milton Friedman
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"Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want." »Janet Fitch, "White Oleander"
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"The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." »Bishop Creighton
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"Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind." »Sir Richard Francis Burton
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"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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"Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown
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"It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent." »Marilyn vos Savant
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"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self." »French Proverb
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