"Keep everything in perspective if you wish to……" — Eric Allin Cornell
"Keep everything in perspective if you wish to be happy. For example... Losing an arm is more an inconvenience than a catastrophe. Things could be a lot worse so why not be grateful they aren't and thereby happy rather than sad?"
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21 Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell
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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency…
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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my…
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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
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The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy…
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Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the…
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It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years…
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With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
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I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder…
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to…
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There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw…
— Jeff Bridges
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but…
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head…
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility…
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If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these…
— Unknown Author
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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