To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
He that hunts others, must run himself.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.