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Hans Selye: My advice to...

Hans Selye: My advice to...

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things...

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Isaac Asimov: Though science can...

Isaac Asimov: Though science can...

Though science can cause problems, it is not by ignorance that we will solve them.

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Idealism is fine;...

Idealism is fine;...

Idealism is fine; but as it approaches reality, the cost becomes prohibitive.

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There is plenty...

There is plenty...

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

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Beware the writer...

Beware the writer...

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on...

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Barbara McClintock: I know [my...

Barbara McClintock: I know [my...

I know [my corn plants] intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

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No tyranny is...

No tyranny is...

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and...

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I learned that...

I learned that...

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads...

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In politics the...

In politics the...

In politics the choice is always between two evils.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Johannes Kepler: I demonstrate by...

Johannes Kepler: I demonstrate by...

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is...

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The dark-veiled silhouette...

The dark-veiled silhouette...

The dark-veiled silhouette . . . that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented...

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No passion in...

No passion in...

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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Johannes Kepler: Nature uses as...

Johannes Kepler: Nature uses as...

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Linus Pauling: I like people....

Linus Pauling: I like people....

I like people. I like animals, too -- whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I...

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Common sense and...

Common sense and...

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common...

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You are no...

You are no...

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how...

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I admire people...

I admire people...

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. . . . They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and...

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A pun is...

A pun is...

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the...

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Presents, I often...

Presents, I often...

Presents, I often say, endear absents.

Source: Essays of Elia, A Dissertation Upon...

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That one is...

That one is...

That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Source: In

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