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- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
- Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
- In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
- There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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