"All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life."

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Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

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“Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”

Source : "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and Education. Hiram College Memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 327, 1882.
“I have never believed in the impossible.”
“Rain on my head; call it brain storming”
“Learn what pitch you can hit good; then wait for that pitch.”
“The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.”
“I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.”

Source : "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.
“Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect. Nor is this to be wondered at when you consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play. It has been observed that absolute idiots play the steadiest.”
“I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers are read. That is a real boon, and it is something I think every scholar or writer can benefit from.”

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