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Life couldn't be this cruel, couldn't be this unfair, could it? She'd told herself that this had to be a nightmare, some awful dream from which she would wake at any second; it couldn't be reality, it just couldn't be the truth.
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― A Song of Me and You
― A Song of Me and You
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When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.
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