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"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death."
"Without love, life is unsustainable."
"The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor."
"Life fits the shoe you walk in."
"A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem by causing many...A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense."
"As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire and wish well the lifethese trees may live when Ino longer rise in the morningsto be pleased with the green of themshining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them."
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"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
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