Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed … - Rene Descartes

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'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Rene Descartes

Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.

Acquire, Passion, Passions, Soul, Souls, Training

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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

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De omnibus dubitandum

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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

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Hunter S. Thompson

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

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Seneca the Younger

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

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John Fowles

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel. " "I can feel. " "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine. " "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

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William Farr

The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.

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Jay Rockefeller

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

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