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Conservatism is the cousin of cowardice.
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By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
from the book "New Organon" by Francis Bacon
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Conventionality is not morality.
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Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
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A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others'evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
from the book "Essays" by Francis Bacon
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A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
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Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.
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It is the initial letters of the four points of the compass that make the word "news," and he must understand that news is that which collies from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication, and not news.
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