"[Kicking a large stone] I refute it thus."
— Stone
January 1, 1970
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Samuel Johnson, 6 August 1763, response to James Boswell's statement that they could not refute George Berkeley's theory of the nonexistence of matter. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol 1, p. 134
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Samuel Johnson, 6 August 1763, response to James Boswell's statement that they could not refute George Berkeley's theory of the nonexistence of matter. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol 1, p. 134