"Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do."

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“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

“It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.”

“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

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"There is a narrowness of action, though not of intent, which characterizes university departments, and scientific publications and scientists in general: if it is too popular, it is somehow vulgar and…"

— Philip Morrison

Education1915–2005

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"Ares hates those who hesitate."

— Euripides

Literature-480–-406

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"Whereas mathematics is the realm of specification, computation is the realm of implementation; it captures all those systems that can actually be realized."

— Joscha Bach

Philosophy1973

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— John F. Kennedy

Politics

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