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Bernard Baruch: Chance sometimes opens...

Bernard Baruch: Chance sometimes opens...

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Source: In...

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Wernher von Braun: Crash programs fail...

Wernher von Braun: Crash programs fail...

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a...

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Charles Kettering: There is a...

Charles Kettering: There is a...

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really...

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Charles Kettering: The biggest job...

Charles Kettering: The biggest job...

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to...

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Eric Temple Bell: If a lunatic...

Eric Temple Bell: If a lunatic...

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely...

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Blaise Pascal: The heart has...

Blaise Pascal: The heart has...

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: [W]e must believe...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: [W]e must believe...

[W]e must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence,...

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Charles Darwin: I must begin...

Charles Darwin: I must begin...

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as...

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Joseph Wood Krutch: There is no...

Joseph Wood Krutch: There is no...

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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Niels Bohr: The best weapon...

Niels Bohr: The best weapon...

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of...

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Albert Einstein: I live in...

Albert Einstein: I live in...

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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Michael Faraday: I am busy...

Michael Faraday: I am busy...

I am busy just now again on electro-magnetism, and think I have got hold of a good thing, but can't say. It may be a...

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Jacques Lipchitz: All my life...

Jacques Lipchitz: All my life...

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer....

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Francis Picabia: My arse contemplates...

Francis Picabia: My arse contemplates...

My arse contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Source: 391, no. 15, 10 Jul...

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Salvador Dali: I do not...

Salvador Dali: I do not...

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his...

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Georges Braque: To define a...

Georges Braque: To define a...

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Source: The...

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Diane Arbus: Love involves a...

Diane Arbus: Love involves a...

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

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Eric Gill: Without philosophy man...

Eric Gill: Without philosophy man...

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

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Eric Gill: The artist is...

Eric Gill: The artist is...

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of...

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Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

Louise Nevelson: True strength is...

True strength is delicate.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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