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John F. Kennedy
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
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John Pearson
Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce.
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Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
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Alan J. Perlis
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Marcel Proust
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
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William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Archibald MacLeish
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
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John F. Kennedy
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
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French Proverb
What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
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John Keats
Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what listen they?
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Beryl Markham
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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