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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

Effective action is always unjust.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, ‘We did this ourselves.’

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Force is not a remedy.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.