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A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.
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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
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It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.
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I trust your wisdom only when it comes from the heart, your goodness when it comes from the mind.
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Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
from the book "" by Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry
I've learned... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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