"The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation."

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Source : Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, Sir Norman Lockyer (1906). “Education and National Progress”

Norman Lockyer

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“The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.”

Source : Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.174, U of Minnesota Press
“We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical”

Source : Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.”
“In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.”
“There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.”
“What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.”
“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.”
“We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.”

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