Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
NIKOLA TESLAFrom my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
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Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.
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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
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Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.
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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
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All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.
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Of all things, I liked books best.
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
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The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.
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Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.
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The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.
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It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.
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All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
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Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
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Great moments are born great oppurtunity.
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The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
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I have always been ahead of my time.
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
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To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.
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We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.
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Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
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The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
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So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.
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