A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were … - Thomas Huxley

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You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically!

Thomas Huxley

A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.

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Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

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We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

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