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• As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.

  Michael Shermer

  Science, Intelligent, History

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• Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.

  Louis Pasteur

  Truth, Science, Thinking

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• When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?...Always?...And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!

  Pope Francis

  Home, Heart, Doors

  Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.53, Orbis Books

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• The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Discovery, Path

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

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• Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Uplifting, War, People

  "Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography".

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• Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Pain, Luxury, Pleasure

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• You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Community, Needs

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• There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Lying, Thinking

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• The religious hypothesis, therefore, must be considered only as a particular method of accounting for the visible phenomena of the universe: but no just reasoner will ever presume to infer from it any single fact, and alter or add to the phenomena, in any single particular.

  David Hume

  Religious, Atheism, Facts

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.360

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• The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Scotch, Water

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about life. All I can say as a biologist is that the feeling disappears progressively the more you read about and study what is known about life and evolution. I want to add one thing more. The more you understand the significance of evolution, the more you are pushed away from the agnostic position and towards atheism. Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Simple, People, Feelings

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• Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Prayer, Perfection

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• Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.

  Johann Arndt

  Jesus, Heart, Grieving

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• The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although that extraordinary number is of the same order of magnitude as the number of stars in the Milky Way, it cannot account for the complexity of the brain. The liver probably contains 100 million cells, but 1,000 livers do not add up to a rich inner life.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Stars, Cells, Order

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• There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Pain, Color, Brain

  "Evolution of the Human Brain". Lecture by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1964.

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• I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took.

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Tired, Character, Journey

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• Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become hurried, repetitive, casual, or forgetful in our prayers, we tend to lose the closeness of the Spirit, which is so essential in the continual direction we need to successfully manage the challenges of our everyday lives. Family prayer every morning and night adds additional blessings and power to our individual prayers and to our testimonies.

  Donald L. Staheli

  Morning, Prayer, Night

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• There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.

  Philip Caputo

  Attitude, Military, War

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• To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.

  Janet Coleman

  Funny, Hate, Errors

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• A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

  Emil Nolde

  Art, Spirituality, Evaluate

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• It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ

  Richard Sibbes

  Christianity, Christ, Destructive

  Richard Sibbes (2001). “Works of Richard Sibbes: Expositions and treatises from portions of several of the Epistles of St. Paul”, Banner of Truth

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• Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Faith, Doctrine, Christianity

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• Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.

  George W. Bush

  People, Age, Library

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• Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

  Robert H. Schuller

  Encouragement, People, Giving

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• Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiring, Travel, Each Day

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