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"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by failure,

than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much,

because they live in the grey twilight that know not victory nor defeat. "
- Theodore Roosevelt

"It is not just the mountain ahead, but the grain of sand in your shoe that wears you down." - Japanese Proverb		"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness." - John Ruskin
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us." -Maurice Maeterlinck		"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life- so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." -M. Cartmill
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sidney J. Harris		"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips		Lovaglia's Law: The more important the outcome of a decision, the more people will resist using evidence to make it.
No worthwhile research project is ever finished, only abandoned. -Paraphrased from Paul Valery