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Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes: It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
         

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.


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My language is the sum total of myself.



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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

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We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.



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There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.





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