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I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.: William Claire
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.: Krishnamarti
"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Art and science have their meeting point in method.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.: Dick Gregory (1932 - )
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.: John Milton (1608 - 1674)

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