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The agnostics praye
O God, if there is a god, save my soul, if I have a soul -- Ernest Renan (1823-1890)...
The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
... A bad bargain is always a ground for rep...
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. -- Joseph Joube
The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values. -- Dean William R. Inge
The aim of education is the wise use of leisure. -- Aristotle
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
-- Willi...
The aim of learning is not knowledge but action.
The aim of meditating about the world is finally to change the world. -- Donald Barthelme
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts.
Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead...

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