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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

~Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

~Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

~Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

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I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant 'centers of resort': the soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers - extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.

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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 1st, 1881

Died: April 10th, 1955

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