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There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism.

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Chapter 9 "Puncturing Punctuationism" (p. 250)
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4 ways: Agnosticism, Relativism, Amorality, Morality. 

1) I don't know. 2) Everybody is different. 3) Do whatever you can. 4) Do what you should.

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Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.

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Maxim 557
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We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

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Maxim 559 [Mimi et aliorum sententiae 677]
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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Maxim 571
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Don't turn back when you are just at the goal.

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Maxim 580
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

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Maxim 584
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He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

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Maxim 629
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Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

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Maxim 633
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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

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Maxim 656
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Be your money's master, not its slave.

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Maxim 657
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It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.

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Maxim 675
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We should provide in peace what we need in war.

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Maxim 709
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God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

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Maxim 715
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

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Maxim 780
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No one knows what he can do till he tries.

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Maxim 786
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They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

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Maxim 790
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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

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Maxim 847
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Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

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Maxim 865
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

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Maxim 872
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The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

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Maxim 891
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Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as what it has not.

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Maxim 927
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The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

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Maxim 941
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Either be silent or say something better than silence.

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Maxim 960
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It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

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Maxim 995
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

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Maxim 1070
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Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

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Maxim 1073
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Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

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Maxim 1075
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To do two things at once is to do neither.

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

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He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. Maxim 6

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Bitter for a free man is the bondage of debt.

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Maxim 14 Variant: "Debt is the slavery of the free."
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If your parent is just, revere him; if not, bear with him.

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Maxim 27
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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

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Maxim 63 Variant translation: "Valour grows by daring, fear by holding back."
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A good reputation is more valuable than money.

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Maxim 108
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Too much straightforwardness is foolish against a shameless person.

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Maxim 123
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He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

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Maxim 139
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For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

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Maxim 207
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Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.

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Maxim 236
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When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

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Maxim 277
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Fortune is like glass-the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

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Maxim 280
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It is more easy to get a favor from Fortune than to keep it.

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Maxim 282
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A beautiful face is a silent commendation.

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Maxim 283
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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Maxim 358
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The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.

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Maxim 407 Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
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Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.

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Maxim 444
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It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

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Maxim 469
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Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

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Maxim 750
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Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

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Maxim 911
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

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Maxim 914

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