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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
May,

"There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud."

"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
May,

"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
May,

"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."
Explore more quotes by Edward Teller

"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."

"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."

"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."

"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."

"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

"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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