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" Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. "

Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine

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" When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. "

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" The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. "

" Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us. "

" It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. "

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