A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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The ultimate computer, our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.
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