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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.: Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
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The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.': Roy Blount Jr.
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The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.: Erica Jong
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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.: Michael McClary
We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?: John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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 never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.: Felicia Day, The Washington Post, 04-03-12
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)