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Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
 
There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
 
Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
 
CORPORATION: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
 
If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most of what we call "stupidity" and even a great deal of what we consider "insanity" might disappear, and the "intractable" problems of war, poverty and injustice would suddenly seem a great deal closer to solution.
 
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
 
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves... for they will never cease to be amused.
 
Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.
 
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
 
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
 
Non esiste nulla all'infuori del Tutto.
 
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
 
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
 
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.
 
He who has never hoped can never despair.
 
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
 
Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
 
The man who said that one cannot step into the same river twice said something wrong; one can step into the same river twice.
 
What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?
 
The thinkers of the Enlightenment sought a new understanding of the human condition. The era was a cornucopia of ideas, some of them contradictory, but four themes tie them together: reason, science, humanism, and progress.
 
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