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"To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious."
— Samuel Butler

"For animals earth is hell, and humans are the demons who torture them."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

"Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth."
— Peter Benchley

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No matter where I run, I always meet myself there."
— Dorothy Fields

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you into something else, is the greatest accomplishment."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The wisest men follow their own direction."
— Euripides, Greek Playwright

"Wisdom is knowing how little we know."
— Socrates

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
— Steve Jobs

"Trying to make this world a better place is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The whole time it is going down. Raising your conscious awareness is like being rescued by a helicopter and being taken to solid ground."
— The Daily Guru

'I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail.
He is immortal, not because he alone
among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice & endurance.'
— William Faulkner

"I could not believe my eyes when I beheld the Great White Continent, a frozen sculptured wasteland of endless beauty at the bottom of the world. But was it always so?"
— Edward Bransfield's Journal

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