"If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones."

-- Dean Kamen

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“Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.”
“If you lose hope, you're just not looking far enough ahead.”

Source : Joe Tye (1997). “Never Fear, Never Quit: A Story of Courage and Perseverance”
“Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.”
“Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.”
“The past is our very being.”
“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.4, Macmillan
“The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obtained by forcible means, or if they could be got by forcible means, such means create more evils than they cure, and leave the country worse than they found it.”
“Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.”

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