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"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

"[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech."

"We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window."

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."

"Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being."

"Miss Hepburn's voice was lilting along as before: She is oblivious of her impact. Or inured to it. Or stuck with it."

"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

"Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror."

"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated."

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

"It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated."

"The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited."

"Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it."

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

"Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."