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"I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter."
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"Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual."
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"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."
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"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
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"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."
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"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
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"Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration."
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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
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"We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable."
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"For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative."
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"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
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"Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines."
Church
"I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment."
Colors
"The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study."
Habit
"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not."
Life
"I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work."
Work
"Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe."
Stars
"The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!"
Soul
"We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
Travel
"I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight."
Work
"I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter."
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