"For none become at once completely vile."

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"It is the tendency of all creeds, opinions, and political dogmas that have once defined themselves in institutions to become inoperative."

— James Russell Lowell

Literature1819–1891

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"And if you should say that the shells were carried by the waves, being empty and dead, I say that where the dead went they were not far removed from the living; for in these mountains living ones are …"

— Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics1452–1519

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"Through others, we become ourselves."

— Lev Vygotsky

Psychology1896–1934

"It is a terrible and awesome thing when a man sets out to create all other men in his own image. Such became the goal and all consuming ambition of Karl Marx. Not that he would have made each man equa…"

— W. Cleon Skousen

Literature1913–2006

#Human Nature