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"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."

"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."

"The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

"Wit is educated insolence."

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."

"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions."

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

"History is a vision of God's creation on the move."

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."

"This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims."

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation..."

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."