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The most difficult We do not d...

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

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It shames the average man to b...

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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The old man laughed loud and j...

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

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To arrive at a just estimate o...

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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It used to take me all vacatio...

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

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There is no character, howsoev...

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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We are strange beings, we seem...

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

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Evolution is the law of polici...

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

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Darwin abolished special creat...

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

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Man has been here 32,000 years...

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

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God made all the animals in a ...

God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

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Baseball is the very symbol, t...

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

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Where are there are two desire...

Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.

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A man who keeps company with g...

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

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You may say organize, organize...

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

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We can secure other people's a...

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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The institution of royalty in ...

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

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If there is a God, he is a mal...

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

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I cannot help but notice that ...

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

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Man is a Religious Animal. He ...

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....