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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."

"What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know."
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"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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