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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.

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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

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