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James A. Garfield Quotes: Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.
         

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.


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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.



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If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.



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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.



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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.



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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.





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