"But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's."
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"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do."
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty."
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"Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age."
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"For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best."
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"In the name of Our Lord, Monsieur, do all you can to regain your health and take good care of it so that you can serve God and the poor for a longer time. This moderate care does not preclude the obligation we have of generously risking our lives when the salvation of our neighbor is concerned."
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"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."
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"When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation."
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"Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others."
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"Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy."
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"There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible."
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"While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require."
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"Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so."
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"At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold."
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"Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should."
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"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"
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"When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise"
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""There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal.""
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