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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire : " All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. " # Age and Aging

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Ben Stein : " In today’s world, at least in America, an Einstein or a Newton or a Galileo would probably not be allowed to receive grants to study or to publish his research. They cannot even mention the possibility that–as Newton or Galileo believed–these laws were created by God or a higher being. They could get fired, lose tenure, have their grants cut off. This can happen. It has happened. " # Age and Aging

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Galileo Galilei : " I tell you that if natural bodies have it from Nature to be moved by any movement, this can only be circular motion, nor is it possible that Nature has given to any of its integral bodies a propensity to be moved by straight motion. I have many confirmations of this proposition, but for the present one alone suffices, which is this. I suppose the parts of the universe to be in the best arrangement, so that none is out of its place, which is to say that Nature and God have perfectly arranged their structure. This being so, it is impossible for those parts to have it from Nature to be moved in straight, or in other than circular motion, because what moves straight changes place, and if it changes place naturally, then it was at first in a place preternatural to it, which goes against the supposition. Therefore, if the parts of the world are well ordered, straight motion is superfluous and not natural, and they can only have it when some body is forcibly removed from its natural place, to which it would then return by a straight line, for thus it appears that a part of the earth does [move] when separated from its whole. I said "it appears to us," because I am not against thinking that not even for such an effect does Nature make use of straight line motion. [A note on this quote is included by Stillman Drake in his Galileo at Work, His Scientific Biography, University of Chicago Press, 1981; and is as follows. Galileo adhered to this position in his Dialogue at least as to the "integral bodies of the universe." by which he meant stars and planets, here called "parts of the universe." But he did not attempt to explain the planetary motions on any mechanical basis, nor does this argument from "best arrangement" have any bearing on inertial motion, which to Galileo was indifference to motion and rest and not a tendency to move, either circularly or straight.] " # Age and Aging

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Jose Ortega y Gasset : " The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities. " # Age and Aging

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Bertrand Russell : " Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. " # Age and Aging

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Ralph Waldo Trine : " There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle. " # Age and Aging

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James Fallows : " Japan gets the most of ordinary people by organizing them to adapt and succeed. America, by getting out of their way so that they can adjust individually, allows them to succeed. It is not that Japan has no individualists and America no organizations, but the thrusts of the societies are different. Japan has distorted its economy and depressed its living standard in order to keep its job structure and social values as steady as possible. At the government's direction, the entire economy has tried to flex almost as one, in response to the ever-changing world. The country often seems like a family that becomes more tightly bound together when it must withstand war, emigration, or some other upheaval. America's strength is the opposite: it opens its doors and brings the world's disorder in. It tolerates social change that would tear most other countries apart. The openness encourages Americans to adapt as individuals rather than as a group. " # Age and Aging

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Eric Hoffer : " It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs. " # Age and Aging

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Woody Allen : " Sonja: I do believe that this is truly the best of all possible worlds. Boris: Well, it's certainly the most expensive. " # Age and Aging

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Sam Harris : " Clearly, it must be possible to bring reason, spirituality, and ethics together in our thinking about the world. This would be the beginning of a rational approach to our deepest personal concerns. It would also be the end of faith. " # Age and Aging

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André Malraux : " The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question. " # Age and Aging

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe." # America

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " Is it not plain that the law of good will has a universal application? There is no event, no act, no word, no supreme crisis of life in which man may let the good will go, and turn on the forces of ill will, egotism, and selfishness. Letting the good will go out of him, he lapses straightway into the child or the savage. Keeping the flow of the serene good will in his soul, he walks the earth, fearless, erect, with God’s sunshine on his face. To live thus is the essence of civilization; the individual and the social welfare are thus secured and harmonized. To live thus is practical religion; the more thoroughly we try, test, and experience it, the more completely it will be found to grow out of, and to illustrate, a Theology, that is, a divine plan of the universe. This Theology matches the needs of civilized men in a civilized world." # Friends and Friendship # Love # Happiness

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " It is absurd to suppose, if this is God’s world, that men must always be selfish barbarians." # America # Love # Absurdity

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood." # School # Pride # Friends and Friendship

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " The truly civilized man has no enemies." # Enemies

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before." # Family # Democracy # Trials

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " It is a world of startling possibilities." # Age and Aging

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony." # Vision # Work # Life and Living

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself." # Religion # Life and Living # Normality

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Charles Fletcher Dole: " The Golden Rule works like gravitation." # Control # Work # Rules

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