"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
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"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."
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"It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock."
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"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."
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"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."
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"Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking."
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"The most important thing is to not stop questioning."
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"I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it."
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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
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"The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not."
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"Do not follow where the path may lead."
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"What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does."
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"I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do."
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"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
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"When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do."
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
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"Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn."
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"Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love."
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"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."
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