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The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
For friends…do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another…and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile…it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
