"The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes."

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Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.

Boris Sidis

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“America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.”
“O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 438, 1895.
“Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.”
“Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.”
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
“We do not want chaos in South Africa.”

Source : Sunday Times, November 5, 2006.
“I am a living testament you can be adopted and successful.”
“I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings. It's just now with computers that it has reached a new level.”

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