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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

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The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

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It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

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I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

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My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

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Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

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We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

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The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

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You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

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It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

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