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"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."

"The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction."

"Every blade has two edges, he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."

"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."

"The problem with radiation research is that you are constantly battling the biological effects of delayed radiation complications."

"You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want."

"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."
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"I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject."

"My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning."

"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."

"MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance."

"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country."

"I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is."

"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes."
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