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- He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
- If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
- Comedy is acting out optimism.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
- "How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our minds. - Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", Channel 4 UK, 2006
- Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 1931
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