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"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness."

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."

"The years teach much which the days never knew."

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."

"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form."

"Let's form multi-disciplinary task forces to reengineer our core processes until we're a world class organization."

"If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong."

"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."

"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."

"In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western."

"The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations."

"I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together."

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."

"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted."

"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."

"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary."

"Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art."

"The poem is the point at which our strength gave out."

"I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden."

"They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing."

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated."

"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."

"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

"That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had."

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."