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- When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
- John Viscount Morley
- Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
- If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
- Yiddish Proverb
- Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Doctor Zhivago
- Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
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