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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?""

"Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it."

"A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition."

"How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?"

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."

"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

"Everything that can be invented, has been invented."

"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

"Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice."

"Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy."

"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."

"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia."

"How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?"

"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests."

"Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage."

"There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be."

"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."

"Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket."

"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace."

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."