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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. ”
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. ”
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. ”
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading. ”
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age. ”
Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire. ”
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. ”
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. ”
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. ”
Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours. ”