Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
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This is what no one warns you about, when you decide to have children. There is so much written about the cost and the changes in your way of ...
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The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking
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