"He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found."
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"The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one."
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"I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it."
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"The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish."
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"Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?"
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"Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base."
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"The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own."
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"My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?"
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"In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end."
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"
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"God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?"
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"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
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"I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such."
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"I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise."
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"One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment."
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"There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation."
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"Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect."
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"We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions."
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"I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does."
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"Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time."
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