"Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

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“My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then.”
“I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.”
“Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?”
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
“So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.”
“When it becomes a bloody reality, we have to come together and look at what can be done to return to the order of peace, ... There is no alternative to it.”
“When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect â€” but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate â€” may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical â€” always think for yourself.”

Source : "Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker". Book edited by Clifford Mead and Thomas Hager, 2001.
“What's the deal with Ovaltine? It comes in a round container, you put it in a round glass, why don't they call it Roundtine?”

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