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I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. (Thomas Jefferson)

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Robert A. Heinlein

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Alain de Botton

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

James Thurber

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

William James

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Branch Rickey

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Dag Hammarskjöld

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.

Frank Zappa

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Paulo Coelho

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Henry David Thoreau

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. (Henry David Thoreau)

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

Robert Oppenheimer

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

W. Somerset Maugham

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

Herbert Butterfield

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

Gary Gygax

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Paul Fussell

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

Moby

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force. (Marissa Mayer)

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Marcus Aurelius

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

Amos Oz

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Theodor Adorno

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