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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ↗

— George William Russell

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Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. ↗

— James Sanborn

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When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

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I confused things with their names: that is belief. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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