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Inspirational Quotes by Jonas Salk
- Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.
- Are we being good ancestors?
- The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
- Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
- It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.
- The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
- Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
- If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.
- It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
- Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.
- I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.
- I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
- There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.
- I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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