The senses collect the surface facts of

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	"The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought." - -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Subject: Philosophical

Top 5 quotes from Philosophical

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape."
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

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