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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

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We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.

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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

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Necessity knows no law.

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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

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