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The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Ultimate wisdom Beginnings Seed Universe
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Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

Time Crisis shrinks Headline disaster
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The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too.

Earth Eye Reaches Mind
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Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

Nature Simple Reduced Words
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All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.
Walking Discovery Time Things whole
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Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Courage End Lose Moment
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Alone Away Blood Children
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No harm will come to me. The Assembly is prepared to treat us leniently.

Assembly Come Harm Me
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My tastes are not those of the king, who has none, except for hunting and mechanic's labour.

Except Hunting King Labour
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Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Add Between Ears Enough
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I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.

Begun England History Interesting
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I should be very sorry if the Germans disapproved of me.

Germans Me Should Sorry
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In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.

Give Had Majesty Many
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You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

Born Child Children Dead
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As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

Appetite Become Channels Could
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God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Eternity Exists God Meets
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Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

Everything Expressions Inspires Love
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I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Deepen Experience Forgiveness God
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Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.

AllTheWorld Amen Dear God
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You lose a lot of time, hating people.

Hating Hating People Lose Lot
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I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Always Bear Behind Easier
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As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Cannot Down Him Hold
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I forgave the DAR many years ago. You lose a lot of time hating people

Hating Hatingpeople Lose Lot
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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Easy Feel Fill Heart
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As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Actually Fear Give Liberated
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Courageous Dare Deal Follow
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Beyond Darkness Deepest Fear
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A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Been Gift Given God
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May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Compassion Enemies Love May
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Always Easy Feels Forgive
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I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Being Campaign Cheerleader Considered
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Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Ability Anything Key Lies
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Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
Authenticity Because Enlightenment Everything
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Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

Every EveryTime Finds Form
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At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
Become Peak Psychotherapy Religion
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Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Day House Inspirational Just
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Abnormal Away Death Half
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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Also Child Confronting Fairy
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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Afterwards Be Kind Dark Day
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I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.

Almost Always Class Compelled
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Aid Being Better Better World
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Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

Aid Alone Any Calm
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I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.

Admirer Day Evening First
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My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.

Atomic Compounds Conditions Determined
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We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

Arms Before Bow Considerations
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Fear Feared Less Life
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The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living.
Biological Experiments First France
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In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.

Awarded Degree Discovery Doctor
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In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts.

Chemical Differs Elements Less
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We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world

Adventure Allow Also Any
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