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None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life. ”
Man lives for science as well as bread. ”
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. ”
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ”
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. ”
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true. ”
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. ”
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me. ”
It is always well to get near to men of genius. ”
Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves. ”