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If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

Half this game is ninety percent mental.

Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter.

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.

It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.