"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect."

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Source : Jacob Bigelow (1867). “Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous”, p.165

Jacob Bigelow

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“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.”
“The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ.”
“The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.”
“But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.”
“This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.”
“Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.”
“The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time fewer than 20 black law students in the entire country met those standards.”
“People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.”

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