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The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), "The True Believer", 1951
I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944), Stars and Atoms (1928), Lecture 1
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Why dost thou gaze upon the sky? O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here.: Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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Keen at the start, but careless at the end.: Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe! Thou soul is the eternity of thought! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

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