I do not believe

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

~ Albert Einstein

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We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

~ Nathan M. Pusey

Every great achievement was once considered impossible.

~ Unknown

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Reputation is what the world thinks a man is; character is what he really is.

~ Anonymous

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence.

~ Benjamin McLane Spock

There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as strength.

~ Leo J. Muir

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

~ William Faulkner

On love I have no respect for anyone who says they’ve given up, or that they’re not looking or that they’re tired. That is to abrogate one’s responsibility as a human being.

~ Harlan Ellison

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