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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain



The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~Ferdinand Foch



Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. ~Sakyong Mipham



Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. ~Usman B. Asif



What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? ~Blaise Pascal, quoted by Tolstoy in Bethink Yourselves



If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero



Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemingway Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ~Ernest Hemingway



When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. ~John Burroughs



My God shall raise me up, I trust. ~Walter Raleigh



Without the karma of good deeds, they are only destroying themselves. ~Sri Guru Granth Sahib



Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



"If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5



When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney



We borrowed golf from Scotland as we borrowed whiskey. Not because it is Scottish, but because it is good. ~Horace Hutchinson



I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. ~William Lyon Phelps



Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein



You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do. ~David Packard