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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Jules Verne
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When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
Lady Margaret Sackville
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She moves the way clocks move. And on her face, as on a clock dial which someone shines a light onto at night, a strange, briefly shown hour stands: a terrifying hour, in which someone dies.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.
Henry David Thoreau
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.
William Faulkner
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I am human: nothing human is alien to me.
In Latin: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.
Terence
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Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.
George Bernard Shaw
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Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.
Helen Keller
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
Adrian Mitchell
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
Stendhal
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One of the main reasons why the sciences are so poor is that they imagine they are so rich. It isn't their job to throw open the door to infinite wisdom but to put a limit to infinite error.
Galileo speaking
Bertolt Brecht
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
G. K. Chesterton
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
Antonio Porchia
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In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Jerry Kramer
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You're a grand old flag;
You're a high-flying flag.
And forever in peace may you wave.
George M. Cohan
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.
Jean Cocteau
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
Ray Bradbury
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Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.
Rumi
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Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
Sherwood Eddy
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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
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It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Georges Courteline
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