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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
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"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
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"If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
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"Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance."
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"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."
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"Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."
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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
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"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
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