"In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny."

-- John Stuart Mill

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“All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.”
“Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?”

Source : Robert Peel, W.T. Haly (1850). “The Opinions of Sir Robert Peel, Expressed in Parliament and in Public”, p.145
“She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”
“Her fatherâ€™s shadow looked sadly down at her. â€œYou can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You wonâ€™t forget your war either.”
“If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.”
“The people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide to take some risk, stick out, do it differently.”
“However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.”
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

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