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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.

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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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