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“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems”
― René Descartes

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.”
― William Whewell, The Philosophy Of The Inductive Sciences V1: Founded Upon Their History

“Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man has always been a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free to doubt his gods; but (unlike the agnostic of to-day) free also to believe in them. He has always cared more for truth than for consistency. If he saw two truths that seemed to contradict each other, he would take the two truths and contradiction along with them. His spiritual sight is stereoscopic, like his physical sight: he sees two different pictures at once and yet sees all the better for that. Thus, he has always believed that there was such a thing as fate, but such a thing as free will also. Thus, he believes that children were indeed the kingdom of heaven, but nevertheless ought to be obedient to the kingdom of earth. He admired youth because it was young and age because it was not. It is exactly this balance of apparent contradictions that has been the whole buoyancy of the healthy man. The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of what he does not understand. The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious. The mystic allows one thing to be mysterious, and everything else becomes lucid.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
― Tom Waits

“In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance”
― Thomas Jefferson

“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
― Dr. Seuss

“God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man.”
― Leopold Kronecker

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
― John F. Kennedy

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost