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"That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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"Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life."
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"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."
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"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck."
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"A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism."
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"The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings."
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"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
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"That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics."
Attitude

"There was a second problem that was still not a technical problem... the project became classified. I couldn't work on it after having gone to all that trouble. I was considered a security risk, so I could not get a clearance."
Work

"I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now."
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"Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different ."
History

"But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen."
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"The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser."
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