When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine

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One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now.

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have

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As individuals express their life, so they are.

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Of course there’s a risk that that could happen, but what is the alternative? To never allow myself

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I believe that just because something didn’t go the way you planned it once, it’s no reason not to t

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...even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say

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For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending.

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Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would

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Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

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To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:1. Facts are facts: things can be abs

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Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind

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See the moon? It hates us.

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Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart peo

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Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and care

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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

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In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confu

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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a conditi

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I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole

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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If

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