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- Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), "Ambassadors", 1903
- Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Themes and Variations", 1950
- Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
- America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
- Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920
- History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916
- If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Telegram, 24 May 1946
- At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), In a letter to Max Born, 1926
- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
- How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) The Sign of Four, 1890
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