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Ralph Cudworth

"If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand."

Source : Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.579

Ralph Cudworth

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“The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.”
“A shady business never yields a sunny life.”
“There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.”
“I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.”
“I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.”

Source : Jane Auer Bowles, Millicent Dillon (1985). “Out in the world: selected letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970”, Black Sparrow Pr
“I fully understood what I was doing when I shot the president. I realized that I was sacrificing my life. I am willing to take the consequences. I want it to be published - I killed President McKinley because I done my duty. I don't believe in one man having so much service and another man having none.”
“I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.”
“I want to thank everybody, all my fans in Israel, all the children, everybody, it's amazing.”

"If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand."

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