"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
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"I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise."
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"Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself."
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"You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again."
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
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"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
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"Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice."
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"I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts."
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"Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation."
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"Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness."
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"The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long."
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"You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to."
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"When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community."
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"The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."
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"Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree."
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"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility."
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"My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong."
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"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."
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"One has to reap the fruits of his karma. The law of karma is inevitable and is accepted by all the great philosophies of the world: 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'"
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"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."
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