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“Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
— George Eliot
“We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.”
— Charles Darwin
“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”
— Ray Bradbury
“When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.”
— Dalai Lama
“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”
— Martin Luther
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein
“I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
— Edward Snowden
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
— John F. Kennedy
“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. ”
— Seneca
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.”
— Ruby Dee
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”
— Groucho Marx
“There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure.”
— Brian Tracy
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”
— John Muir
“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
— Sun Tzu
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
— Chinese Proverb
“No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.”
— Plato
“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.”
— H. L. Mencken
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
— Franz Kafka
“This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
— Alan Watts

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