Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

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August Wilson

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

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Francis Crick

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

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Joshua Slocum