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"In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generally held, especially in America, that a man should not allow love to interfere with his career, and that if he does, he is silly. But in this as in all human matters a balance is necessary."
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"Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!"
"We can only climb the mountains because there's a valley that makes the mountain a mountain."
"For men, women are their 'counter weights' and when that is not enough, their daughters are their 'counter weights.' One can't do without a counter weight. Otherwise, he will fall over."
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
"There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live."
"This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!"
"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."
"Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work."
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
"There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths."
"Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction."
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