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"In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.""

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."

"Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time."

"Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."

"Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, You mean they forget?

"Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world."

"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."

"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."

"Life is a cement trampoline."

"Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune."

"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."

"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."

"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison ."

"I think it very uncivilized to invade British territory. You are here illegally."

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."

"If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act."

"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork."

"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'"

"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."