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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 28, 2015
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)  
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)  
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado, August 19, 1910  
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)  
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