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George Wald

"The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them."

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"The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

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"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

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"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."

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"There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men."
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"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."
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"All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side."
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"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."
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