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«Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.»
«Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.»
«In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.»
«Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.»
«In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will»
«Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge»
«A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.»
«London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green.»
«Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.»
«Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.»

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