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George V. Higgins
“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
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Albert Einstein
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
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Albert Einstein
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

André Gide
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide

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