The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted … - Richard A. Proctor

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You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

Richard A. Proctor

The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.

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Astronomy. . . is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.

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From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.

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As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.

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