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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
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"Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?"

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

"A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."
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