It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Author: Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa

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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.