People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted … - Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

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Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.

Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

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The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.

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Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it appear better. However just remember and focus on the fact that your life could be much worse and be grateful it isn't. No matter what others or even you may briefly think you are lucky things aren't worse so be grateful.

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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man

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I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.

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