"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truththat God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"

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"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. "

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"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on absurdity
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on absurdity
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"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."

Repplier, Agnes on absurdity
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"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."

Havel, Vaclav on absurdity
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"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. "

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"My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence. "

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"In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. "

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"Whilst the last members were signing [the Constitution], Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun. "

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"We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices, and private interests. By the help of these, artful men overpower their wisdom, and dupe its possessors; and if we may judge by the acts, arrets, and edicts, all the world over, for regulating commerce, an assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth. "

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"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."

Franklin, Benjamin on absence
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

Einstein, Albert on opinions
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"God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"God is clever, but not dishonest."

Einstein, Albert on god
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

Einstein, Albert on acceptance
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"Caution is a most valuable asset in fishing, especially if you are the fish."

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"If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church."

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"In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny."

Einstein, Albert on government
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"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

Einstein, Albert on government
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"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

Einstein, Albert on nuclear age
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"The environment is everything that isn't me."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count."

Einstein, Albert on money
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"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Einstein, Albert on mistakes
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

Einstein, Albert on humankind
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"One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve."

Thoreau, Henry David on flowers
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"People die of fright and live of confidence."

Thoreau, Henry David on fear
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on emotions
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Thoreau, Henry David on egotism
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"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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