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Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I… — Guy Kawasaki
The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high. — Henry David Thoreau
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to appear wiser and more prudent than is required by the people you are dealing with if you want to give a high… — Baltasar Gracian
The times call for courage. The times call for hard work. But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher.… — Henry Hazlitt
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is… — Milton Friedman
Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug… — James Carriger Paine
When taxes are too high, people go hungry. — Laozi
The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth. — Norman Cousins
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high… — Carl G. Fisher
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning,… — Lewis Thomas
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and… — William James
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the… — John Herschel
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have had an intense… — Luis Walter Alvarez

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