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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

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It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.

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Nobody picks on a strong man.

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In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse.

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Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

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The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane

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