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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
My life closed twice before its' close- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me. So huge, so hopeless to concieve As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light.: Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.: William Ockham (1300 - 1349)
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist.: Dom Helder Camara
Hope costs nothing.: Colette (1873 - 1954)
No law ever written has stopped any robber, rapist or killer, like cold blue steel in the hands of their last intended victim.: W. Emerson Wright
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.: Hypatia of Alexandria (370 AD - 415 AD)
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.: Joseph Priestley
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.: Joseph Priestley
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