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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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How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a…
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If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know…
— Socrates
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I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to…
— John Welwood
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Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the…
— Paulo Coelho
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Take delight in the simplest things.
— Unknown Author
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To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take…
— Confucius
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To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.
— Alan Cohen
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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any…
— Immanuel Kant
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them…
— Xunzi
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Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is…
— Charles Edward Montague
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