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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation."
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"I to myself am dearer than a friend."
Friendship

"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
Justice

"O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!"
Life

"Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him."
Love

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
Thought

"ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!"
Life

"Such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty."
Life

"What's done cannot be undone."
Life

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
Art

"I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels."
Ambition
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