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Solicitation and effort or conation belong properly to animate beings alone. When they are attributed to other things, they must be taken in a metaphorical sense; but a philosopher should abstain from metaphor.

— George Berkeley De Motu (1721)

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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

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