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• Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

  Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

  Animal, Suffering, Benefits

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• Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Risk, Apollo, Information

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• Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Children, Other Worlds, Feelings

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1903.

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Thinking, Men, Expression

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• The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Doctors, Belief, Patient

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.

  Aristotle

  Children, Animal, Brave

  Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

  Sarah Vowell

  Prayer, Museums, Talking

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• People tend to link "sex and drugs" because both are condemned by society. Nevertheless, throughout the ages human beings have continually searched for more ecstasy, more sexual satisfaction, for solutions to their sexual problems, and for aphrodisiacs.

  Rick Doblin

  Sex, People, Drug

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• Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Tree, Too Late, May

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

  Hermann Hesse

  Years, Age, Encounters

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• If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Fire, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.227, Xist Publishing

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• It's two seasons since I raced in Sepang and I'm looking forward to it now. It's a track where you have a little bit of everything - it's hard to ride, it's hot, there are fast and slow corners, hard braking, long straights and everybody has references from the tests.
  Nevertheless, we need to wait to see on Friday what the temperature and track conditions are like to understand how the tyres will work, because it's normally very slippery. I'm really enjoying racing at the moment and I want to continue like this, pushing the maximum from our side without thinking about the others.

  Dani Pedrosa

  Friday, Thinking, Two

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• Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Book, People, Mind

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• I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless.

  Wallace Stevens

  Crush, Men, Garden

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• To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

  George Steiner

  Men, Ideas, Hegel

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.53, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

  Arthur Miller

  Book, Degrees, Holiness

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.17, A&C Black

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• The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

  David Mamet

  Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

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• As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying hello, lovely day, and so on.

  Lynne Truss

  Lovely, Email, Saying Hello

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

  Saint Patrick

  Character, Angel, Soul

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• When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so.

  Aristotle

  Taken, Unjust, Stones

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

  Georges Bataille

  Communication, Desire, Tasks

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• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Fighting, Dry Up

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• ... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.

  George Santayana

  Soul, Faces, Immortality

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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