"It has become, in my view, a bit……" — Stephen Jay Gould

"It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light."

— Stephen Jay Gould

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do… — Marcus Aurelius
Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
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