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The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
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To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.
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As the racial distinction of humanity lies in its social relation, so we find the distinctive gains and losses of humanity to lie also in its social relation. We are more affected by our relation to each other than by our physical environment.
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To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.
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When I see the spirit of liberty in action, I see a strong principle at work; and this, for a while, is all I can possibly know of it.
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The study of conditions will prove an education in itself and a stimulus to invention.
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The forest is an eternal mediator between winds and gravity in their never-ending struggle for the possession of the waters.
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On this bit of the wild world's stage are theatrical lightning changes of scenes—changes that on most mountains would require ten thousand years or more. It is a place of strange and fleeting landscapes; the earth is ever changing like the sky.
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Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
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A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope.
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Nothing comes unbidden; where the shadow is, there also is the substance.
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To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Acquire a method of perceiving how all things change into one another.
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All our egoistic impulses, our selfish desires, obscure our true vision of the soul.
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The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.
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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.
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Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding.
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Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.