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Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein : German-Swiss-American mathematical physicist, famous for his theories of relativity.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Source: Einstein, Out of My Later Years, chapter 8, part 1, p. 26 (1950, rev. & reprinted 1970).
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis
 
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Believe nothing.
No matter where you read it,
Or who said it,
Even if I have said it,
Unless it agrees with your own reason
And your own common sense.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada
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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb
 
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No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or destroy.

Ayn Rand : Russian born American writer & philosopher who advocated capitalism, individualism, & "objectivism"
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Source: Atlas Shrugged, Page: 798
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Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

Magdeleine Sable (c. 1599 - 1678)
Source: the Marquise Sablé’s work is in Maxims and Various Thoughts (Maximes et pensées diverses) 1678
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The biggest block to any man's success is in his head.

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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

Confucius : Chinese philosopher, founder of Confucianism
Confucius (c. 551 - c. 479 BC)
 
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