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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side.
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,– He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar
Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.
When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One - the inner sound which kills the outer.
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalled catastrophes.
The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches…. he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified… The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
