We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it. We must not as for more.

Karl R. Popper
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  2. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. - Dalai Lama Xiv

  3. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

  4. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht

  5. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.... - William Shakespeare

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  1. No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

  2. Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in...

  3. Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

  4. While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

  5. No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

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