“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
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(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
― Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.”
― Leaves of Grass: The Death-Bed Edition
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
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