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The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

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Age, like distance lends a double charm.

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.

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Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.

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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother stil

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''

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06 December 2025

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

Stephen Hawking

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