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Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing.
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Extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.
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Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity.
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Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.
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This danger is greatly heightened, as it has been always observable that men are less jealous of encroachments of one department upon another than upon their own reserved rights.
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What right have I to be free, that another man cannot prove himself to possess by nature?
William Lloyd Garrisonverified·No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York·February 14, 1854
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was it not obvious that flocks and herds were more ready to obey their keepers than men their rulers
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.