Richard Feynman Quotes
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
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The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
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Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
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I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
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The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.
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I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.
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Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
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As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.
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The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
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Silence is a source of great strenght.
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I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
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I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
