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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?


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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.



We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.



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-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.



All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.



The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.



Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.



While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.



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Everyone shares the same fate.



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It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail.



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In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope



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I don't fight people for fun.



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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.



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Settle down, Princess. It’s not my first time.



People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

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To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.



Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.




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