Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought the one, the many.
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