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It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#arrive #decision #does #enough #know

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#always #beginning #book #events #every

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#comparison #dream #get #him #i

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#foreground #growing #i #into #life

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#good #good work #keep #only #tiny

Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#again #deer #first #friends #go

The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical. ↗

— Henry Taube

#only #physical #reckoned #science #terms

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#even #fall #grace #harm #inclined

You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#cruel #heart #into #know #looking