"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
-Hosea Ballou
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"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."
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"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
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"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation."
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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
-Ingrid Bergman
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
-Helen Keller
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