The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena … - Isaac Newton

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By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

Isaac Newton

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

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I don't have an opinion about whether or not politics should appear more in fiction or not, generally. I think politics are a part of life, but a part of life that most people don't think about very much, most of the time. Or, people think about it superficially and they talk about it superficially because they don't know very much.

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Benjamin Graham

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.

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So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing. ' I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest. ' There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair.

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I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.

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