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The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it? ↗

— Laini Taylor

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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

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If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are? ↗

— Bill Watterson

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— Socrates

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Dacă omul va uita cu desăvârşire că există moarte, că există un sfârşit, riscăm să ne întoarcem la maimuţe. Explicaţia este simplă: omul activ, omul creator, este excitat mai ales de ideea că într-o zi se va termina totul, că va avea un sfârşit, o odihnă definitivă. Cultivă la maximum conştiinţa acestui sfârşit, şi vei obţine de la oameni cele mai extraordinare eforturi. Cine ştie asta incontinuu este în stare să ridice munţii, este în stare de cele mai crâncene libertăţi, de cele mai curajoase acte. ↗

— Mircea Eliade

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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

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We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. ↗

— Henry Beston

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And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

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