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"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."
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"Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."

"You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?""Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily."Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!"I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer."

"Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more."
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

"The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once."

"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."

"Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have."

"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
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