For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Norman Maclean
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  1. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw

  2. It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. - Lewis Carroll

  3. A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for. - Amit Ray

  4. Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out. - Carroll Bryant

  5. The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are. - Carroll Bryant

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  1. Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can...

  2. Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

  3. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.

  4. Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers, " possessed of one of the oldest and possible...

  5. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and...

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