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“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”
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“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self Reliance
― Self Reliance
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
― All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
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