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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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