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"All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work."
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"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."
Science
"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."
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"I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process."
Science
"If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that."
Interest
"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
Age
"Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that."
Life
"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."
Life
"If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far."
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"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."
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