Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas the interest of science lies in the art of making science.Paul Valery
History is the science of what never happens twice.
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We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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