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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."

"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."

"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
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"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

"Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement."

"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present."

"Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it."

"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
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