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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.Lewis Mumford
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 10714. Printed attribution: Schopenhauer. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Modesty is the handmaid of virtue.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1093. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1093
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Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 17730. Printed attribution: Sterne. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105