John Archibald Wheeler Quotes
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I do not like violence.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
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Success is never ending, failure is never final.
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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.
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I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
