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"The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do."
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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us."
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."

"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
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