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To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

Michael Oakeshott

On Being Conservative

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Oakeshott, Michael. "On Being Conservative. " Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays. Methuen, 1962.

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The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured-especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised.

E.O. Wilson

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Wilson, Edward Osborne. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, ch. 11.

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A long line of cases shows that it is not merely of some importance, but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.

Gordon Hewart

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Rex v. Sussex Justices

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Hewart, Gordon, CJ. The United Kingdom, The King's Bench Division. Rex v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy. 9 Nov. 1923. ([1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] All ER Rep 233].

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The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Max Perutz

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Perutz, Max. Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. E.P. Dutton, 1989.

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North American civilization is one of the ugliest to have emerged in human history, and it has engulfed the world. Asphalt and exhaust fumes clog the villages... This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... The inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the globe.

Arthur Charles Erickson

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Erickson, Arthur Charles. Speech recieving an honorary university degree, LL.D. (Honoris Causa). 1973, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

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For over against the convenience of instantaneous communication is the fact that the great economical abstractions of writing, reading, and drawing, the media of reflective thought and deliberate action, will be weakened.

Lewis Mumford

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Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. Harcourt, Brace and Company/Routledge, 1934, ch. 5, sect. 7.

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Slowly the reality of it all formed in my mind: we were expendable! It was difficult to accept. We come from a nature and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.

Eugene Sledge

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Sledge, Eugene B., Jr. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. Presidio Press, 1981, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Alexander Fleming

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Fleming, Alexander. Address at Edinburgh University. 1951, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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My funny valentine,
Sweet comic valentine,
You make me smile with my heart.
Your looks are laughable,
Unphotographable,
Yet you're my fav'rite work of art.

Lorenz Milton Hart

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Hart, Lorenz. "My Funny Valentine." Babes in Arms. Composed by Richard Rodgers. 14 Apr. 1937, Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Bernard Baruch

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Baruch, Bernard M. Quoted in "Bernard Baruch, Financier, Dead." The New York Times, 21 June 1965.

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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

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Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949, foreword.

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Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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Peirce, Charles Sanders. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Science and Philosophy. Vol. 7, The Belknap Press, 1966, par. 547.

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There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space.

John Archibald Wheeler

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Wheeler, John Archibald. "Curved Empty Space-Time as the Building Material of the Physical World." Meeting of the International Philosophy of Science Association. 1960, Stanford, CA, USA.

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