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Chinese Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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Truman Capote
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Eugene Paul Wigner
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
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Bill Clinton, announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
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Japanese proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
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Henry James
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
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Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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Persian Proverb
It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.
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Hasidic Saying
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
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Jesse Louis Jackson
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
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Stanislaw J. Lec
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
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