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“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”
― Charles Darwin

“He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
― Adolf Hitler

“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”
― Chanakya

“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.”
― Charles Darwin

“Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
― Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
― Confucius

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.”
― Adolf Hitler

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world”
― Aristotle

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
― George Washington Carver

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”
― Confucius

“Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes skies so blue,
And I'll tell you why I love you.

Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
Testicular hormones are why I love you. ”
― Isaac Asimov

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“The Universe is very, very big.
It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.
Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.
Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.”
― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change.

In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.”
― Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, Traité élémentaire de chimie

“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”
― Socrates

“Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.”
― Gautama Buddha

“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. ”
― Socrates

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
― Isaac Newton