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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Along with being right, in this world, it's best to be clear and definitively wrong.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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It is a fact that man has to control science and occasionally check the progress of technology.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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The birth of science was the death of superstition.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Society differs from nature in that it pursues a defined moral purpose.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley

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The outcomes of political changes are rarely what their friends expect or their enemies fear.

Juana de Ibarbourou

Juana de Ibarbourou

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Childhood is the stage when all men are creators.

Juana de Ibarbourou

Juana de Ibarbourou

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Because no tear ever rescues the world that is lost or the dream that fades away.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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They can forbid me from following my path, they can try to force my will. But they cannot prevent me from, deep in my soul, choosing one or the other.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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What is the first duty of man? The answer is very brief: to be oneself.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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Our society is masculine, and until women enter it, they will not be considered human.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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How strange happiness is! No one knows from where or how or when it arrives, and it comes through invisible paths, sometimes when it is no longer expected.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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A thousand words are not engraved as deeply as a single deed.