"Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1870). “Essays and Reviews”, p.115

Edwin Percy Whipple

“There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.”
“I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.”
“Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.”

Source : John C. Polkinghorne (2010). “One World: The Interaction of Science and Theology”, p.55, Templeton Foundation Press
“The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.”
“The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.”
“We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.”
“The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.19, Encounter Books
“The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.”

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