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The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.

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No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Basil W. Maturin

Basil W. Maturin

Born: February 15, 1847
Died: May 7, 1915 (aged 68)
Bio: Basil William Maturin was an Irish-born Anglican priest, preacher and writer who later became Roman Catholic. He died on board the RMS Lusitania, during the First World War.
Known for:
  1. Christian Self-Mastery
  2. Self-knowledge and Self-discipline (1905)

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