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Joshua Lederberg

"All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals."

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"All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals."

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."
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"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."
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"I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science."
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"I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people."
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"I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it."
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"If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing."
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"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
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"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."
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"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
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