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"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
"Life is the music of your soul, all you need to do is to listen hard."
"Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not."
"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
"Open your eyes to what wonder exists in the world. You have within your the power to create the life you want."
"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
"Gloomy ones must learn to light the Fire of Inspiration " the Spark that will clear the Dark within."
"The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps."
"Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!"
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"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."
"I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist."
"Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II."
"I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."
"I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any."
"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned."
"But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born."
"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."
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