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"We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that."
"Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites."
"If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it."
"Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker."
"Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen."
"A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing"
"Science does not permit exceptions."
"A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man."
"Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today."
"Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right."
"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."
"... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job."
"A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?"
"An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices."
"We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment."
"The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions."
"Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern."
"No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true."
"Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else."
"A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow."
