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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. ↗

— John Searle

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But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for. ↗

— William H. Seward

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When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones. ↗

— Huston Smith

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