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The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

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I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it,. . . Am I pushing out the homeless?

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When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration.

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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.

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In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

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