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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.
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Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.
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The rhythm is then the life, in the sense in which it can be said to be included within nature.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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Identification of rhythm as the causal counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
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Systems, scientific and philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.