Adversity, Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

- Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity (1597).

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Birthday., John Glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

- John Glenn

Animals, James A. Froude

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

- James A. Froude, Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies (1886) [C. Scribner's Sons, 1972, ISBN 083699096X, 9780836990966, 396 pages], p. 67

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Death, Grand Inquisitor Silecio

Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul.

- Grand Inquisitor Silecio, in The Fountain, screenplay by Darren Aronofsky.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Death

Mind, Isaac Asimov

It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

- Isaac Asimov, The Beginning and the End (1977) as quoted in Todd Siler, Breaking the Mind Barrier (1997)

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Anemone, William Cullen Bryant

Within the woods,
Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast
A shade, gray circles of anemones
Danced on their stalks.

- William Cullen Bryant, The Old Man's Counsel.

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Researcher, Konrad Zuse

Der Glaube an eine bestimmte Idee gibt dem Forscher den Rückhalt für seine Arbeit. Ohne diesen Glauben wäre er verloren in einem Meer von Zweifeln und halbgültigen Beweisen.

Translation: The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.

- Konrad Zuse

Attributed in Konrad Zuse on "Die Erfindergalerie", dpma.de, 2008

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

Glory, Cicero

Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

- Cicero, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45

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Storm, John F. Kennedy

I know there is a God — I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it — if he has a place then I am ready — we see the hand.

- John F. Kennedy paraphrasing a statement by Abraham Lincoln; quoted in The New York Times (15 May 1964)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Storm

Charity, Thomas Aquinas

Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.

- Thomas Aquinas, uaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270)

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