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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

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A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. ↗

— Anne Brontë

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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. ↗

— John Ciardi

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗