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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
— Joseph Addison
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the…
— Joseph Addison
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up…
— Joseph Addison
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.
— Grenville Kleiser
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Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene.
— Michel de Montaigne
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