Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

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About Thomas Henry Huxley

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Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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There is a well-worn adage that those who set out upon a great enterprise would do well to count the cost. I am not sure that this is always true. I think that some of the very greatest enterprises in this world have been carried out successfully simply because the people who undertook them did not count the cost; and I am much of the opinion that… the most instructive consideration for us is the cost of doing nothing.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

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Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

—Theodore Parker

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A person who believes… that there is a whole of which one is part, and that in being a part, one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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I think I wanted it too much and you didn’t want it enough.

—Jay Crownover in Rule

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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

—Harry S. Truman

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Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

—Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

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