"What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness."

-- Baruch Spinoza

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“Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.”

Source : 'The Constant Couple' (1699) act 5, sc. 3.
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

Source : "U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk: Entrepreneur's "insane" vision becomes reality". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. May 22, 2012.
“I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.”

Source : "French Montana wants a pet monkey" by Rob Markman, www.mtv.com. October 25, 2013.
“Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.”
“If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.”
“It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”

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