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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Life
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
Progress
"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
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"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."
Science
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Life
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."
Evil
"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."
Family
"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."
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"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
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"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
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