The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.
You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.
Make not your thoughts your prisons.
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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