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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

Albert Einstein

If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.