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 | "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but
when there is nothing left to take away." | |
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Found in the topic Perfection.
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| "War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature
but plunges him more deeply into them." | |
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Found in the topic Machinery.
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| "Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking
together in the same direction." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "When you give yourself, you receive more than you give." | |
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Found in the topic Charity.
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| "Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is
tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to
them." | |
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Found in the topic Understand.
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| "When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from
the truth." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of
flickering pictures ? in this century as in others our highest
accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." | |
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Found in the topic Accomplishment.
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| "I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "As for the Future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable
it." | |
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Found in the topic Future.
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| "If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists." | |
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Found in the topic Animals.
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| "It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and
in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys." | |
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Found in the topic Joy.
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| "There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way
towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the
meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he
embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You
could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity ? for where
will the stone go, once it is quarried?" | |
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Found in the topic Liberty.
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| "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It
is not something discovered: it is something moulded." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." | |
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Found in the topic Logic.
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| "How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the
river flows on." | |
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Found in the topic Water.
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| "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our
attitude towards them." | |
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Found in the topic Attitude.
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| "To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible." | |
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Found in the topic Duty.
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| "No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to
us. To live is to be slowly born." | |
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Found in the topic Born.
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| "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always
the same step, but you have to take it." | |
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Found in the topic Progress.
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