"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." - Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse (1872)
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"It is hard to fail; but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt
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"The people are responisble for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruptuion." - James A. Garfield
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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man." - Martin Heidegger
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"In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure, the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence." - Socrates
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"Ignorance is the root and stem of every evil." - Plato
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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necesssary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - Rene Descartes
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"If I wager for and God is-infinite again;
if I wager for and God is not-no loss.
If I wager against and God is-infinit loss;
if I wager against and God is not-neither loss nor gain." - Blaise Pascal
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"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." - John Locke
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