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"About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

"Once again, this nation has said there are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach."

"Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it."

"The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

"The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education."

"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

"Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope."

"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

"At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?""

"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."