James Smithson Quotes
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
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Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.
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The Beatles did everything first, and they did it the best.
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My kids are my greatest piece of art.
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Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
