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So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.
If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.
The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
Much can be learned in play that will afterwards be of use when the circumstances demand it.
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.
As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.
I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.
The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.
Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.
Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.
Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.
As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.
Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.
Once you know the difference between right and wrong, you have lots fewer decisions to make.
We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.
Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.
The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.
Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.