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"Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform."
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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."
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"If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it."
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"The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well."
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"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
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"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
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"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."
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"This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened."
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"When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice."
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"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
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"If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing."
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"It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge."
Knowledge
"A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science."
Science
"In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward."
Talent
"Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed."
Science
"The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted."
Effort
"I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject."
Hope
"There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe."
Circumstance
"The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours."
Effect
"Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction."
Genius
"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
Work
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