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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
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Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
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Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.
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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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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
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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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From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.
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No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
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It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
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The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
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My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
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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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If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.
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Of all things, I liked books best.
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Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work.
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The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!
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There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
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It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the awakening of the intellect of women.
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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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Every living being is an engine geared to the wheel-work of the universe.
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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
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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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