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People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

— Marie Curie, Physicist and Chemist

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo, French Poet

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.

— Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

— Georg W.H. Hegel, German philosopher

What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

— Thomas Hexley, English Biologist

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

— Steve Allen, Actor

Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.

— Heath Ledger, Actor
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