General quotes
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities.
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