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Living
Men who never get carried away should be.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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Learning
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner
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Knowing
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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