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"You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one."
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"In the equation of life, the limit does not exist."
"When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children"
"Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love."
"The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness."
"If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything."
"There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God."
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"Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it."
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