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"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?"
"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about."
"He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life."
"The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done."
"No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it."
"In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich."
"A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him."
"Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature."
"If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to."
"The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."
"What God does, He does well."
"Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does."
"Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world."
"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it."
"No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly"
"In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all."
"The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician."
"Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does."
"Only when the clock stops does time come to life"
"EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some."
