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		<title>Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 27 (1.27) / sec. 66 (1.66) (45 BC) [tr. Black (1889)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARCUS: And so, whatever that may be which possesses thought, wisdom, life, vitality &#8212; it must be of Heaven and divine, and therefore immortal. [Ita, quicquid est illud, quod sentit, quod sapit, quod vivit, quod viget, caeleste et divinum ob eamque rem aeternum sit necesse est.] This passage is actually quoted by Cicero from his [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">MARCUS: And so, whatever that may be which possesses thought, wisdom, life, vitality &#8212; it must be of Heaven and divine, and therefore immortal.</p>
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<p><em>[Ita, quicquid est illud, quod sentit, quod sapit, quod vivit, quod viget, caeleste et divinum ob eamque rem aeternum sit necesse est.]</em></p>
<br><b>Marcus Tullius Cicero</b> (106–43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher<br><i>Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes]</i>, Book 1, ch. 27 (1.27) / sec. 66 (1.66) (45 BC) [tr. Black (1889)] 
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This passage is actually quoted by Cicero from his now-lost <i>Consolation [Consolatio]</i>, written after the death of his daughter. That text survives only in fragments such as this.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/tusc1.shtml#:~:text=ita%2C%20quicquid%20est%20illud%2C%20quod%20sentit%2C%20quod%20sapit%2C%20quod%20vivit%2C%20quod%20viget%2C%20caeleste%20et%20divinum%20ob%20eamque%20rem%20aeternum%20sit%20necesse%20est.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Whatever therefore is that Principle which hath Sense, which hath Wisdom, which hath Will, which hath Activity, it is Celestial and Divine, and therefore, must of necessity be eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A33161.0001.001/1:3.27?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Whatever%20therefore%20is%20that%20Principle%20which%20hath%20Sense%2C%20which%20hath%20Wisdom%2C%20which%20hath%20Will%2C%20which%20hath%20Activity%2C%20it%20is%20Celestial%20and%20Divine%2C%20and%20there%E2%88%A3fore%2C%20must%20of%20necessity%20be%20eternal.">Wase</a> (1643)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whatever then that is, which thinks, which has understanding, volition, and a principle of life, is heavenly and divine, and on that account must necessarily be eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002010497y&view=2up&seq=52&q1=%22and+a+principle+of+life%22">Main</a> (1824)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Therefore, that nature, in us, which thinks, which knows, and is full of life, whatever it may be in itself, is celestial and divine, and necessarily, for that reason, eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044085192730&view=2up&seq=62&q1=%22that+nature+in+us%22">Otis</a> (1839)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whatever, then, that is which thinks, and which has understanding, and volition, and a principle of life, is heavenly and divine, and on that account must necessarily be eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29247/29247-h/29247-h.html#toc25:~:text=Whatever%2C%20then%2C%20that%20is%20which%20thinks%2C%20and%20which%20has%20understanding%2C%20and%20volition%2C%20and%20a%20principle%20of%20life%2C%20is%20heavenly%20and%20divine%2C%20and%20on%20that%20account%20must%20necessarily%20be%20eternal">Yonge</a> (1853)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Thus whatever that is, which feels, which knows, which lives, which has an interior principle of life, is heavenly and divine, and must therefore of necessity be eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/cicerostusculand00ciceiala/page/48/mode/2up?q=%22thus+whatever+that+is%22">Peabody</a> (1886)]  </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whatever that principle is which feels, conceives, lives, and exists, it is heavenly and divine, and therefore must be eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cicero/b2NoAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA594&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22quidquid%20est%20illud%22">Taylor/Hunt</a> (1916)]  </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>So whatever it is which has feeling, intelligence, life, and energy is heavenly and divine, and on that account must be eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cicero/LlbwDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22so%20whatever%20it%20is%20which%22">Douglas</a> (1985)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whatever it is that thinks, knows, lives, and grows must be heavenly, divine, and therefore eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/On_Living_and_Dying_Well/Nly3yxp3lVsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22whatever%20it%20is%20that%22">Habinek</a> (1996)] </blockquote><

<blockquote>Accordingly whatever it is that has consciousness, life and activity must be heavenly and divine, and for that reason eternal.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/On_Life_and_Death/8-M-DgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22accordingly%20whatever%22">Davie</a> (2017)] </blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Russell, Bertrand -- &#8220;Do Dogs Think?,&#8221; New York American (1932-06-15)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do not know whether dogs can think, or what thinking is, or whether human beings can think. But whether human beings can think or not, I know that those who love dogs think that dogs can think. This, I am afraid, is the sum total of my contribution to human knowledge on this important [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do not know whether dogs can think, or what thinking is, or whether human beings can think. But whether human beings can think or not, I know that those who love dogs think that dogs can think. This, I am afraid, is the sum total of my contribution to human knowledge on this important subject.</p>
<br><b>Bertrand Russell</b> (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher<br>&#8220;Do Dogs Think?,&#8221; <i>New York American</i> (1932-06-15) 
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		<title>Bierce, Ambrose -- &#8220;Brain,&#8221; The Cynic&#8217;s Word Book (1906)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. Included in The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary (1911).]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BRAIN, <em>n.</em> An apparatus with which we think that we think.</p>
<br><b>Ambrose Bierce</b> (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist<br>&#8220;Brain,&#8221; <i>The Cynic&#8217;s Word Book</i> (1906) 
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<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dictionary/B#:~:text=BRAIN%2C%20n.%20An%20apparatus%20with%20which%20we%20think%20what%20we%20think.">Included</a> in <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1911).						</span>
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