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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.


Thomas Henry Huxley

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The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
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CHARLES A. BEARD What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN Being with Henry doesn't mean you have to give up who you are. Henry doesn't define you.
AIMEE CARTER Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLI Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE Some people conclude that the injustices existing in the world prove there is no God. On the contrar...
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Its better to Convince by words rather than your Hands. We should not degrade our Standard for other...
MERLIN8THOMAS By their own follies they perished, the fools.
HOMER The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...
DENNIS GABOR Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
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JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Never give up on those who make time for you without being notified by the Virtual World.
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DORIS EATON TRAVIS The world is in pain, and its pain makes strangers of us all and ties my tongue in a lover’s knot.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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EVE ENSLER The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a co...
JOSEPH ADDISON The government ended up replacing public monopolies with private monopolies by simply selling its as...
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GEORGE BROADHEAD All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Time is always moving and as it moves day night, night day the motion of time is clear, to many peop...
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GARY F EVANS... The spirit of the day wakes up us to protect democracy and human rights and inspires us to fight aga...
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VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY But God doesn’t change.’
'Men do, though.’
'What difference does that make?’
...
ALDOUS HUXLEY For I am you and you are I.
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YURI KOCHIYAMA I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
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ROBERT HORMATS The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver ...
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DIN SYAMSUDDIN The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when peo...
JOSEPH JOUBERT I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a...
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GERALD R. FORD My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best...
DIANA LOPEZ It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
HILAIRE BELLOC It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation
HILAIRE BELLOC 'Tis by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Our trade opens to all the world.
EZRA STILES When you have a revenue stream, being able to move forward on a project makes all the sense in the w...
JAY BLANTON Joyful thanksgiving, so far from being escapist or sentimental, is on the contrary entirely realisti...
KALLISTOS WARE Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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BLESSING MPHELA As players, we all stood back, took one knee and prayed for Thomas.
BRYANT YOUNG He dies, and makes no sign. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's sort of mixed feelings. It's sentimental and it's also being scared of what could happen.
MARI PEHKONEN The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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THOMAS HUXLEY In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had...
THOMAS HUXLEY I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HUXLEY The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
THOMAS HUXLEY My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harm...
THOMAS HUXLEY Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
THOMAS HUXLEY The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The mode...
THOMAS HUXLEY The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but ...
THOMAS HUXLEY The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an il...
THOMAS HUXLEY Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
THOMAS HUXLEY I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec...
THOMAS HUXLEY History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as supe...
THOMAS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
THOMAS HUXLEY If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of makin...
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY