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Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.


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The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.



In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.



Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.



I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.



The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.



Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.



There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.



To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.



Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.



The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.





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Now is the time to change your tomorrow.

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Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.



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One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.



Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

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I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.

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I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

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