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• Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great…
• Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as…
• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
• A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
• No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
• We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
• Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us…
• Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not…
• Good science is more than the mechanics of research and experimentation. Good science requires that scientists look inward-to contemplate the origin of…

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