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• When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Judging, Community, Slavery

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.334, University of Chicago Press

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• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, School, Men

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

  Camille Paglia

  Nature, Science, Anxiety

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Views, Order

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1995.

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• There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven.

  Andrew Davidson

  Believe, Emotional, Would Be

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.344, Canongate Books

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• So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Art, Mean, Healing

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• It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Fun, Race

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

  Ian Mcewan

  Order, People

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.23, Random House

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• Privatization of the postal system has long been characterized as absurd, but I have always said it is only logical.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Long, Absurd, Privatization

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• Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

  James P. Hogan

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  James P. Hogan (2007). “The Two Worlds”, p.360, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Saint, Would Be, Way

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• Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

  Jerome Wiesner

  Answers, Complicated, Problem

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• Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep in my subconscious, if only I could find the key..if only..if only. Ever since my illness, my condition, I've been trying to find some logical way of passing my time, of justifying a means to an end.

  Ian Curtis

  Real, Mean, Past

  Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• "No one is doing what we're doing." This is a bummer of a lie because there are only two logical conclusions. First, no one else is doing this because there is no market for it. Second, the entrepreneur is so clueless that he can't even use Google to figure out he has competition. Suffice it to say that the lack of a market and cluelessness is not conducive to securing an investment. As a rule of thumb, if you have a good idea, five companies are going the same thing. If you have a great idea, fifteen companies are doing the same thing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Lying, Clueless, Ideas

  Guy Kawasaki (2008). “Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition”, p.48, Penguin

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• If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

  Greg L. Bahnsen

  Eye, Men, Law

  Greg L. Bahnsen (1985). “By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today”, p.175, American Vision

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• We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

  Frank Lorenzo

  Crazy, Player, Emotional

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• Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Wall, Character, Thinking

  Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.425, Random House

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• This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Psychological, Procedures

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• Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Essence, Agony

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• You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

  Bill Johnson

  Mind, Looks, Impossible

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.192, Charisma Media

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• The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

  Sting

  Often Is, Safety, Choices

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• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

  Kenneth Clark

  Men, Gdp, Opera

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• ...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.

  Larry King

  Media, Years, People

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• I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Mind, Want

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Logic, Assumption

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2522, Delphi Classics

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