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“To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.”
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“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”
Source : Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.89, Lulu.com
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“It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.”
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“I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .”
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“I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery...”
Source : "Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants". Book by Susan A. Ambrose, Barbara B. Lazarus and Indira Nair, 1997.
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“Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.”
Source : John Main (2006). “Word Into Silence”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
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“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”
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“Income is there to create quality of life, but you can share your car and get where you want to go, and you can travel the world by couch surfing.”
