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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."

"God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy."

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

"Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven."
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"It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments."


"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."


"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics."


"By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college."


"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."


"About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power."


"We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy."
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