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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
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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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"It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality."
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"Life is a dancing mind, loving heart, caring soul, and wandering thoughts."
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"My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation."
Work
"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports."
Community
"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression."
People
"Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left."
Argument
"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."
Attention
"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."
Fact
"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."
Society
"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."
Cure
"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming."
Global warming
"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive."
Global warming
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