The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

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The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It’s easy to take an extreme position.

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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

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You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you’ll find out that you’re a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that’s happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

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It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

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I’m not a speed reader. I’m a speed understander.

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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

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From my close observation of writers…they fall into two groups 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

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Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

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Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It’s a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

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