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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

Anything Away Become Business
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Book Cannot Composed Comprehend
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Around Bunch Dependent Else
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Clusters Else Mass Milky
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

Make Measurable
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Authority Humble Individual Questions
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Begin Demonstrations Discussion Experiments
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

Actions Hidden Indifferent Man
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Answer Authority Bound Consider
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

None Have Always Free
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

Cannot Choose Circumstances Control
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Been Christianity Difficult Found
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The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Although Authentic Become Cannot
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

Affection Fear Fears He
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

Change Clothing Culture Does
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Nothing Life Good Marriage
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Absorb Am Angels Cannot
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Being Burden Camel Free
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Young Enough Know Prudent
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Another Education Generation Passes
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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A Good Man Call Example Five
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Country Foot Foreign Foreign Land
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

About Being Education Instructed
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Been Christian Difficult Found
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Act Believe Falls Fate
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There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Does Eye Go Heart
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Chinese People Nothing No
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Beautiful Before Loveliness More
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God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.

Cannot Come Creep Doubts
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Condemned Past Remember Repeat
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Almost Always Another Friends
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Best Friends Low Men
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Feast Life Predicament Spectacle
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Fool Laugh Man Older
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Machines Men Problem Real
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Always Best Circumstances Failure
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Improve Know Prefer Religion
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Achieve Avail Freedom Law
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Compared Courageous Government Man
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Admit Another Class Country
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

Alone Being Born Development
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Conviction Discontent Enough Importance
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Act Cannot Ceases Essence
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Consider Essential Foundation Hold
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