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"Nature [is] that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer."

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

"In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else."

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."

"The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny."

"90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world."

"We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in."

"I mean, it was not soft power that freed Europe. It was hard power. And what followed immediately after hard power? Did the United States ask for dominion over a single nation in Europe? No. Soft power came in the Marshall Plan. Soft power came with American GIs who put their weapons down once the war was over and helped all those nations rebuild. We did the same thing in Japan."

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."

"Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future."

"Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."

"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."

"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."

"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."

"Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics."

"If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else."

"History is a vast early warning system."

"Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?"

"Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country."

"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."

"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."