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“Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.”
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“It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.”
Source : Quarterly Review of Biology Journal, 51, p. 277-283, 1976.
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“I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.”
Source : "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015. 
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“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”
Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
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“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”
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“Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.”
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“Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.”
Source : "Cindy McCain: Myth vs. Reality" by Nancy Collins, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 1, 2007.
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“Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.”
Source : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 157), 2001.
