Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.
- Thomas Huxley
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out... Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
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