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"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."
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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

"From a relatively early age I got interested in business."

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."
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"We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated."

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful."

"The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that."

"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."

"As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million."
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