The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
- Logan Pearsall Smith - In Old Age
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Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
- Lillian Smith - In Faith
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
- Logan Pearsall Smith - In Nature
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If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."
- Margaret Smith - In Religion
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
- Adam Smith - In Science
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
- Adam Smith - In Science
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Logan Pearsall Smith - In Success
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The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
- Adam Smith - In Technology
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