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"I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
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"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."
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"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
Geography
"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation."
Art
"A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things."
Life
"How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature."
Nature
"It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck."
Education
"That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it."
Life
"I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient."
Style
"You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you're competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work."
Work
"I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery."
Father
"To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old."
Music
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