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«I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.»
«The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.»
«The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.»
«The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.»
«In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.»
«Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible. To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of exis»
«Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.»
«Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him»
«Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.»
«All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.»

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