Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.
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Related We both knew no bounds to our escapism. HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothin... GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY We do not see any meaningful improvement in IT spending, and we are not counting on a strong holiday... CARLY FIORINA He was just a wonderful person, a jokester, professional at his job, a great partner and teammate. W... TIM BALDWIN There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important ... LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI There isn't the buzz and excitement about computer science that there should be. We're on the thresh... BILL GATES We have repeated our position on relations with the Vatican many times. There is no change in our po... LIU JIANCHAO We were inspired by the success of our inaugural charity auction, and overwhelmed by the many positi... DELLA BRITTON BAEZA It's hard to have my department do all the work that we do and rely on 48,000 people to pay for our ... GREG GRAHAM At times we played very well and at times we were inconsistent. We still need to work on our passing... JODI MANORE If we're afraid to stand in our own skin with those we work with, then how do we lead those who ... ERTHARIN COUSIN As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - a... STEPHEN HAWKING You need a class like this because many people who work in the policy world have a sophisticated und... DANIEL BYMAN It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to ... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT It was an important meeting. It was very important to have it, but we still have a lot more work to ... MADELINE ALBRIGHT We need change. I mean, our traditions are important. We shouldn't give up on those. But sometimes, ... RICHELLE MEAD No matter our wonderful new technology is, we still have to clean it, HELOISE We knew that (working in New Orleans) was going to be rough and we were all ready to buck up and do ... CHRIS YORK We have many challenges to address, and our problems have a significant impact on the nation as a wh... GREG COX Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful tim... ROBERT HURT I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise ... DOLLY PARTON We have a young team and some older experience, but we were never satisfied. The younger girls have ... AMY DENSON There was no need for us to continue on. We had gone through our process and felt we had an outstand... BILL WEARY I think Tim would be amazed and proud of where the organization he founded has gone, and where it's ... CARLY WIER I know our fans have gone through some difficult times, but we said that we would remain flexible an... DALE TALLON When we come together to play and be we are truly ourselves When we are truly ourselves it is wonder... BRAD COLBY Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to... TOM BROKAW As the Baby Boomer generation retires, the demand for young scientists and engineers is expected to ... BOB STEVENS I think we had more team unity tonight than we've had all season. We performed well tonight. We knew... ASHLEY MILES Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics be... LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm rea... HARRY REID Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now... GREGORY MAGUIRE In the final analysis, our job is to get this thing started. What's gone on before with Scientific G... CHARLES SANDERS The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and we... FIDEL CASTRO We may propose many plans, let's but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and bett... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn t... ELIZABETH MARSHALL THOMAS Those who knew him remember how much his position and voice meant in difficult times when all the ch... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it wa... MARY BERRY When we are on the road, our focus should be on maintenance -- squeeze in workouts, eat right ... an... LISA WHEELER We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as rec... COLIN POWELL I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are ... HAYLEY WILLIAMS Folks seem to confuse what science is all about; it's a methodology of discovery to explain how thin... DAVID MAJOR We don't have any seniors on our team this year so we are very young. But we have gotten past being ... ANDREW WASHINGTON Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, ... LAURA BUSH Do you really want to go back to those times when orphanages existed and when many orphans were not ... JOHN IRVING Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. I... CASSANDRA CLARE It's heartbreaking to give up so many points. We knew New Milford was a powerhouse and we just tried... JASON MARTIN We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters m... BILL CLINTON Abercrombie kept us off balance early but we had our chances. This is a young ball club and we knew ... JOE DURANT Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone,
And still a new to-morrow does come on.
We by to-morrow... MME. A.M. BIGOT DE CORNUEL We knew we were going to have our ups and downs this season. We just talk amongst each other and let... BRYANT MARKSON I've had several work addiction cycles in my life. Those were situations when important tasks were a... ERALDO BANOVAC I love the life in New York. New York has an excitement about it. You have so many people, so many d... PAULA CREAMER We work with the county as many times as we can. But we know our limitations. KATHY LAWSON In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past red... DAN B. ALLENDER I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, p... ADRIAN MCKINTY Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of... HARRIET GOLDHOR LERNER We have our (national) annual meeting in Milwaukee in May, and there's no doubt that Wisconsin, of a... DARREN LASORTE Members of this alliance have faced monumental challenges, and we have overcome them together, ... A... DICK CHENEY We were down to our last straw several times. All second half, we had opportunities to lay down and ... CHIP HESTER Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon... BARACK OBAMA While the developments on the fleet are positive, we still have some important work to do on our res... KATE MOSER We have no problem bringing (young) people out for hikes and social activities. But when you flip th... JENNIFER LEE There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good manage... PAUL GIBBONS Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the s... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We all understand that all organizations have challenges. As a community, we have challenges to impr... DAVID BOUTIN We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and ... T. E. LAWRENCE A lot of the traditional retention strategies were money, stock options and bonuses. We certainly us... DOUG PELINO All of life is a test and we all have our challenges to meet. MARJORY SHEBA This team, we were hurt from last week, and we wish we had certain plays [against New England] to do... TROY WALTERS I am extremely grateful for the time I spent on ER, ... It is a wonderful show, and there are so man... SHERRY STRINGFIELD In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be ou... JAMES E. FAUST You don't critique a win. A couple of times we were a little disrupted in our our own end but that a... TOM POTI I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to ... MAX VON SYDOW This is a critically important time for South Dakota and I want to bring my unique perspective and l... LARRY DIEDRICH We all thought we were going to have just a meeting, but we also knew it was going to be a good day. CORY BOYD Thus it often is with us, we take a course, and we keep to it, as if we were infallible, and we allo... G.A. HENTY I remember when we sold our last 1,000 hens, Helen and I danced a victory dance! We were absolutely ... GEORGE SEGAL It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our en... GEORGE MULLER It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our en... GEORGE MULLER We all have times when we lack confidence and don’t feel good about ourselves and this is the mome... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Monmouth is a great defensive team or they wouldn't be here. This is the NCAA Tournament and there a... ALLAN RAY It didn't meet all our ears that well because we were writing a new record and had great material an... RICKY PHILLIPS We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Inst... SENATOR JOHN KERRY The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges t... HILLARY CLINTON We always felt that pitching was the most important aspect of the game and we caught ourselves at ti... VIN ABENE We were looking for a [new] space because our audience numbers were growing and we were outgrowing o... ELISABETH ANDRE We've gone backwards from where we were yesterday on some very important work rules. BOB BEDARD Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what w... IAN THORPE We scored points in all 18 events to show excellent team balance in this meet. We are really encoura... DAVE RANDGAARD We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling i... JOSEPH CONRAD We were definitely all over the place on defense. Defense just sparks our offense so many times. I d... DEBBIE MERRILL We just didn't get easy baskets on the other end. That played a very big part in our first two wins.... DANIEL WRIGHT When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of... MARIE CURIE On Saturday, when the mayor told everyone to evacuate New Orleans, we got everything together and go... AVA SEVIN Let's accept it that we remember people only when we have some work and only our Mother remembers... HONEYA We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born... GEORGE ELIOT We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous litera... KATIE HOLMES I hope the Knights beat us to those players, from a Kiwi perspective, but we are going to be putting... BOB PATTERSON In the first period we were all over them at the start, but then we got away from our game. We knew ... BRIAN CAMPBELL
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I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and def... SYDNEY SMITH To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence. SYDNEY SMITH The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t... SYDNEY SMITH Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. SYDNEY POLLACK A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ... SYDNEY SMITH No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. SYDNEY SMITH What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? SYDNEY SMITH Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The grea... SYDNEY SMITH Good friends are good for your health. SYDNEY SMITH Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. SYDNEY SMITH One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live
with able men, and to suffer all th... SYDNEY SMITH We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into th... SYDNEY SMITH Oh, herbaceous treat!
'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;
Back to the world he'd turn hi... SYDNEY SMITH We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal. SYDNEY SMITH The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. SYDNEY SMITH A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen
writer to be a spectacle on which the ... SYDNEY SMITH To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart. SYDNEY SMILES It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting t... SYDNEY SMITH Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an... SYDNEY SMITH It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. SYDNEY SMITH How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after ... SYDNEY SMITH No furniture is so charming as books. SYDNEY SMITH It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite dir... SYDNEY SMITH Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyo... SYDNEY SMITH I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards. SYDNEY POLLACK Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. SYDNEY HOOK I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so. SYDNEY SMITH Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of e... SYDNEY SMITH He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. SYDNEY SMITH The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo... SYDNEY SMITH Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising wher... SYDNEY SMITH Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b... SYDNEY SMITH What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? SYDNEY SMITH Granted there are instances in which children have been reared in an atmosphere of inconsistency whe... SYDNEY SMITH Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but... SYDNEY SMITH Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being... SYDNEY SMITH Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our... SYDNEY SMITH I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs? SYDNEY PFIZER Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent... Be what Nature ... SYDNEY SMITH A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their g... SYDNEY SMITH The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. SYDNEY SMILES Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. SYDNEY SMITH Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends... SYDNEY SMITH Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious... SYDNEY SMITH Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. SYDNEY SMITH A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con... SYDNEY SMITH It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is ge... SYDNEY SMITH The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply ... SYDNEY SMITH Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory. SYDNEY SMITH Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my f... SYDNEY SMITH Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep ... SYDNEY SMITH A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would... SYDNEY SMITH I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. SYDNEY SMITH Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather t... SYDNEY SMITH Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned... SYDNEY SMITH His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes... SYDNEY SMITH He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. SYDNEY SMITH The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else... SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did
it exist? I am glad I was not bo... SYDNEY SMITH Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ... SYDNEY HARRIS Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no m... SYDNEY SMITH Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. SYDNEY SMITH Gardens are a form of autobiography. SYDNEY EDDISON He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo... SYDNEY SMITH I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I a... SYDNEY POLLACK I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat... SYDNEY WAYSER Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? SYDNEY MADWED If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni... SYDNEY MADWED Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this all... SYDNEY SMITH Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means t... SYDNEY POLLACK As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. SYDNEY SMITH As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers. SYDNEY SCHANBERG The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. ALGERNON SYDNEY That is the best Government, which best provides for war. ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin... ALGERNON SYDNEY No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest. ALGERNON SYDNEY Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio... ALGERNON SYDNEY Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta... ALGERNON SYDNEY God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate... ALGERNON SYDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ... ALGERNON SYDNEY All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate. ALGERNON SYDNEY A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th... ALGERNON SYDNEY I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. SYDNEY SMITH People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand,... SYDNEY POLLACK Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogar... SYDNEY POLLACK When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman. SYDNEY POLLACK It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch
understanding. SYDNEY SMITH That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and
sulphur. SYDNEY SMITH I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords
to stop the progress of reform, rem... SYDNEY SMITH Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that... SYDNEY SMITH American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from ... SYDNEY POLLACK The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ... SYDNEY GREENSTREET There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. SYDNEY POLLACK