Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
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Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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You can't learn less.
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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