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«We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
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Physician,
Writer)
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About:
Animals,
Earth,
Future
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Keywords:
Among the,
Among the Living,
die away,
discontent,
fearing,
take in,
unable,
uniquely,
worrying
«Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish»
«The silence that is in the starry sky,The sleep that is among the lonely hills.»
«Who included me among the ranks of the human race?»
«The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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About:
Faith,
Truth
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Keywords:
Among the,
Catholic,
dogma,
gifted,
infidels,
presents,
ridicule,
ridiculed,
ridicules,
scientific,
scrutiny,
The Infidels
«This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence -- and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again -- and you with it, you dust of dust!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
again and again,
Among the,
Among the Living,
dust,
glass,
life eternal,
moonlight,
Return to,
sequence,
series,
sigh,
small number,
spider,
The Eternal,
The Sequence,
This Life,
turned,
unspeakably
«Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?»
«We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, ev»
Author: Victor Hugo
(
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Happiness,
Love
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Keywords:
Among the,
assurance,
assurances,
beloved,
blind,
exquisite,
forms,
in passing,
passing,
remark,
strangely,
supreme
«Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.»