"I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place."
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"I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."
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"The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh."
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"Ultimately I want to be able to create whatever I want whenever I want. And if that doesn't work, I don't mind just doing weird plays."
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"Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?"
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"I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation."
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"The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind."
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"Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men."
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"life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health."
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"Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind"
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"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest."
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"Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system."
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"I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people."
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"Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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"Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want."
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"Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country."
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"Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom."
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"It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population."
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"Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves."
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"From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs."
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