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Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Take Nothing but Pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.

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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

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All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

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