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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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
