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"no fear, no envy, no meanness" - liam clancy

"the paths of glory lead but to the grave." - thomas gray

“reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” - albert einstein

“everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. you create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” - douglas adams

"as you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness." - henry david thoreau

"men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." - blaise pascal

"there is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though it is strange that it hath no history what it was before us, nor cannot tell how it entered in us." - sir thomas browne

"may you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live." - bud abbott

"learn from the mistakes of others. you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself." - eleanor roosevelt

"the course of true love never did run smooth." - shakespeare

"i firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. the engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world." - henry adams - april 11, 1862

“the world is a miracle, unfolding in the pitch dark. we’re lighting candles." - barry lopez.

“the cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

“there is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” - graham greene

"perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on." - samuel beckett

""any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats." - orwell