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In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card.
A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.
Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
I'm looking for a world where love will no longer be extraordinary.
To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.
An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.
There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.
Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
I don't trust their [Bill and Hillary Clinton ] sense of boundaries.
Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.
Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.
For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.
Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.
All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.
A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.
The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.
The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.