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Quote by Marie Angelique Arnauld

“remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.”

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Marie Angelique Arnauld was a 17th-century French philosopher and writer, known for her contributions to philosophy and literature. Her life and works reflect the rare position of women in academia during her time. more

“Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.”

Ifs Problem Science Process Involved Degrees Concepts Experiments Observation Schemes Problem Solving Undertakings Interconnected Empiricism

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“Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science.”

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“Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.”

Knows Men Way May Soul Problem Faces Dies Conflict Vain Success Or Failure Inner Conflict

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“One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.”

Age Duty Ought Management Remains Valuable Old Age Growing Old

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“The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.”

Knows Pleasure Know How Disposition Moderation Relish

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“We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.”

Want Mean Forgiving Disgusting Meanness

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“Politeness costs little and yields much.”

Littles Cost Yield Politeness

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