"The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit."
-Avicenna
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"Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials."
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"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."
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"Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health."
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl."
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"When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied."
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