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Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.

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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

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