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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to…
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any…
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,…
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot…
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes…
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but…
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and…
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A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is…
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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
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When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.
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For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the…
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I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends…
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Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter…
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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
— Aeschylus
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The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike
— Shannon Hale
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As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.
— Eric Greitens
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