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Things that don't quite make sense can be our most valuable tools.: David Wilson, Director, the Museum of Jurassic Technology
The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Message to Congress, December 3, 1907
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse-Five
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), Gnomologia, 1732
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They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Lord Jim
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo
Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)

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