If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
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A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
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Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
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We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.
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