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“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned but give him a little metal a few chemicals s...”
“The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.”
“I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important...”
“To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.”
“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.”
“The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.”
“Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close. Something attempted something done Has earned a night's repose.”
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
“God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
“There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.”
“Behind an able man there are always other able men.”
“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”
“The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.”
“There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the l...”
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
“You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required th...”
“They are able because they think they are able.”
“I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.”
“'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the answer given without hesitation.”
