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Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.
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He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others'successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.
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It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.
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Charlie Chaplin started having kids at 60-just decided he wanted to have kids then. I still feel the same as I've always felt. Better now, because I'm happier.
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I'm an old-fashioned guy. I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
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Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I should never have survived for eighty, nor sixty, nor yet thirty years. Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding, the rhythm of the stanza. She has been the spring wherefrom I have drawn the power to write the words. She is the poem of my life.
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The fundamental fact of human awareness is this: "I am life that wills to live in the midst of life that wills to live." A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.
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After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.
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But I think a life of raising prize cattle, going shooting two or three times a year, fishing in the summer, and interspersing the whole thing with some golf and bridge, and whenever I felt like talking or writing, doing it with abandon and with no sense of responsibility whatsoever, maybe such a life wouldn't be so bad.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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