Life isn’t what you’re given; it’s what you create, what you overcome, and what you achieve that makes it beautiful.
-- Richard Feynman

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My theory is that as the world improves, expectations rise even faster, leading to the persistent illusion that the world was better in the past. The only time the illusion is punctured is when a society is successfully digging out of a very big slump.
-- Noah Smith (@Noahpinion)

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I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

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A wise man... proportions his belief to the evidence.
-- David Hume

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Many engineering deadlocks have been broken by people who are not engineers at all. This is simply because perspective is more important than IQ.
-- Nicholas Negroponte

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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.
-- Flannery O'Connor

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In a networked world, ubiquity conquers superiority -- a widely accepted technology will overwhelm even a technologically superior rival.
-- Kevin Kell & Gary Wolf

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The unquestioning, devoted patient has been replaced by an informed skeptical consumer.
-- Whitney Addington (AAMC 2000 Address)

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Science is a culture of doubt. Religion is a culture of faith.
-- Richard Feynman

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
-- Albert Camus

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