"In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
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Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
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Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.