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Nobody can be exactly

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.