Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because read more
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
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Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.
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Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
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Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park.
