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"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away."

"Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond."

"If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside."

"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

"Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realize the bath water is cold."

"Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex."

"The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them."

"Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it."

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

"He is so old that his blood type was discontinued."

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."