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"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed." »Blaise Pascal
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"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment." »Alvin Toffler
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"A good friend is my nearest relation." »Thomas Fuller
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"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown." »Albert Einstein
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"Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe." »Albert Schweitzer
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." »Louis K. Anspacher
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"Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world." »Ruth Hubbard
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"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect." »Jacob Bigelow
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"The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them." »Jean Cocteau
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"The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime." »Elsa Barker
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"The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing." »Marcel Proust
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"It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else." »Leonard Bernstein
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."" »Julian the Apostate
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"Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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"It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex..." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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