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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

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The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in...more

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Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars--all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families...more

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You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will b...more