To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

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Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

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To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

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Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

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