"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal."
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"A time comes when silence is betrayal."
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"All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."
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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
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"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."
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"Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him."
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"Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew."
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"It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection."
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"It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas."
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"God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent."
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"Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science."
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"The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted."
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"I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas."
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"Courage mounteth with occasion."
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"Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that."
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"The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war."
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"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
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"I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."
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"This is the short and the long of it."
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