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“Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.”

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a prominent German writer and philosopher, known for his contributions to the Enlightenment. He is celebrated for his plays, poetry, and literary criticism, which often explored moral and philosophical themes. more

“Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.”

Today Used Space Powerful Cases Technology Example Changed Moon Computer Phones Command Cells Digital Apollo Cell Phone Navigate Good Examples Spacecraft Digital Technology

Author:Neil Armstrong

“I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.”

Knows Doe Has Beens Said Forests Tigers Skeletons

Author:Wole Soyinka

“What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?”

Ifs Men Left Birth Ancestor Stains Offspring Ancestry

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.”

Hands Education Virtue Keys Depends Misery Vices Gates Almighty

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.”

Heart Age Exercise Breaths Without You Joyfulness

Book:AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE

Source: AN APOLOGIE FOR POETRIE

“Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.”

Made Law Sea Mark Guides Ignorant Passengers Shipwreck Twigs Limes

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.”

Power Authority Fairs Command

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.”

Teach Delight

Author:Philip Sidney

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