Old age is not for sissies.
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...the staff at my university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later all of Boston were behaving strangely towards me. ...I started to see crypto-communists everywhere. ...I started to think I was a man of great religious importance, and to hear voices all the time. I began to hear something like telephone calls in my head, from people opposed to my ideas. ...The delirium was like a dream from which I seemed never to awake.
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When in doubt, duck.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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Men who never get carried away should be.
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Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
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You can judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing to them or for them.
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If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
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Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Failure is success if we learn from it
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