"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."

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Source : "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.

Avicenna

“Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games”
“Money is that thing that you work so hard to save but gets spent so easily.”
“Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.”
“The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food.”
“I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.”

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“Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.”
“This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.”
“It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.”

Source : "Memorias de Fouche" by Joseph Fouché, 1824.

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