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"I don't seek power and do not run around."
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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."
"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
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"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
"Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time."
"The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market."
"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills."
"When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed."
"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."
"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."
"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."
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