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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Branches Currents Dealing Electrical
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A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

Person's duty Young Ambitious Noblest
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Worth Intelligent Majority People
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Great deal Importance Papers
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Young men Prove theorems Old men
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Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

Most people Frightened Ready
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.

Scorn Profound Justified Men
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The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

Public Convinced Mathematics
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

Science Useful Accentuate Inequalities
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Good work is not done by 'humble' men

Good work Done Humble men
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... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

Philosophy Subject Hopelessly obscure
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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Love Stammers Stutters Best
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Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Earth Bless me Fecund Sacred
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Writing Cheer me Soothe Spirit
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Joy Being healthy Beauty
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Many things Child Bones Formed
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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Lost Carrying Childhood Favorite flower
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Religiosity Remembrance Soul
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Dusk I feel my heart melting in the mildness like candles: my veins are slow oil and not wine, and I feel my life fleeing hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
Dusk Heart Candles Veins
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

God Write Comedy Bad actors
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Some luck Wanted Once you
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Nice things Funerals Sad Miss mine
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Time Elephantine vanity Look far Campfires
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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Come from People Believe Life
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose
Highlight Childhood Brother laugh Food
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Sometimes Reality Eye
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Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

Some people Love Fellow man Light anesthetic
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The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Gospel Meant Comfort Afflicted
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Computers can never completely replace humans. They may become capable of artificial intelligence, but they will never master real stupidity.

Computers Replace humans Capable
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My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything.

My God Praise People Busy
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Sometimes I think I understand everything—then I regain consciousness.

Sometimes Understand everything Regain
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We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Have Some rules Regulations World
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It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. It's not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

Real friends Aisle Society
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Question Story logic Powerful God
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

A man Lives life Meets Licks it
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Time is the fire in which we burn.
Time Fire Burn
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It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

Become Crusade Demonstrate Violent
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

Away Been Got Gun
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Also Animals Becomes Cruel
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Favor Few Got Honest
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Concepts Constitute Corresponding Elements
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Above Awe Law Me
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Be Happy God Happy Make
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Actions Become Law Life
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Dark Lighthouse Many Metaphysics
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

About American American Society Being
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Fingers Me Simply Thinking
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Believe Books Expect Immortality
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