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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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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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'
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[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
