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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"Your will to success supersedes all other wills."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."

"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."

"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
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