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/ page 762 of 1205 /Every dogma has its day.
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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