The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. ― Josef Pieper

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Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

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You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain. — Tom Hiddleston

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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. - Henry A. Kissinger

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If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world

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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

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The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it. — Tricia Cunningham

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Oh, Issyk-Kul, my Issyk-Kul--my unfinished song! Why did I have to remember that day when I came here with Asel and stopped on the same rise, right above the water? Everything was the same. The blue-and-white waves ran up the yellow shore holding hands. The sun was setting behind the mountains, and at the far end of the lake the water was tinged with pink. The swans wheeled over the water with excited, exultant cries. They soared up and dropped down on outspread wings that seemed to hum. They whipped up the water and started wide, foaming circles. Everything was the same, only there was no Asel with me. Where are you, my slender poplar in a red kerchief, where are you now?

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