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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
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"I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common."

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Harrison Schmitt Astronaut
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"Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect."

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Boethius Philosopher, Theologian
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"Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."

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Oscar Romero Archbishop, Activist
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"Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."

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Abigail Adams First Lady, Advocate
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"It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself."

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