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"The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue."
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"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."
"Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you - you will blow right by their grip, you will effortlessly flow to safety."
"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."
"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."
"True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains."
"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were."
"Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others..."
"Employment is the greatest dream killer."
"None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."
"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."
"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
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