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This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal. ↗

— Paul Nurse

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I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#am #any #around #believe #certain

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#danger #endowed #generally #i #lies

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. ↗

— Paracelsus

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Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#also #authority #become #body #controls

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#difficulty #enemy #european #i #imagine

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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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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