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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.: Mother Jones
There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.: George Tooker
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.': Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.: Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
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Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.: H. Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980)
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.: John Sladek
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.: Natalie Goldberg
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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