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"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not."
Physics
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
Science
"Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution."
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"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible."
Life
"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets."
Now
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."
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"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."
Science
"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."
Defeat
"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win."
Experience
"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."
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