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"Uncertainty (not knowing what is going to happen) creates more stress than knowing that something bad is definitely going to happen."
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"No real belief, however trifling and fragmentary it may seem, is ever truly insignificant; it prepares us to receive more of its like, confirms those which resembled it before, and weakens others; and so gradually it lays a stealthy train in our inmost thoughts, which may someday explode into overt action, and leave its stamp upon our character."
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"Sometimes it's easier to reach out to people who have more in common with us. Don't give in to that tendency. Stretch to make connections with people who can bring a diversity of thoughts and skills to your resource network. That will amplify your potential, no matter what direction the NASDAQ is heading."
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"When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years."
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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life. "
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"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
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"It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
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"The attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices."
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"While life in its merely biological aspects is a miracle and a secret, man in his human aspects is an unfathomable secret to himself—and to his fellow man. We know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we may make, we do not know ourselves."
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"Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. [Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker.]"