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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers. ↗

— Deborah Norville

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Wise thinkers prevail everywhere. ↗

— Sophocles

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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

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Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both. ↗

— Martin Frost

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Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ↗

— Albert Camus

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