"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
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"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Learning never exhausts the mind."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
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"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
-J. K. Rowling
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
-Anais Nin
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
-Jack Lemon
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
-Robert Fulghum
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
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