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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize.

l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear… This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity… that comes from being what we are, right now.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.