"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."
-Rene Descartes
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"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.“
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"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
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"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."
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"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
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