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Nobel Prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

George Bernard Shaw

In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.

Plato

Tomorrow never comes.

Proverb

The more upset a person is with other people, and with circumstances, and the more satisfied he is with himself, the further he is from wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

I just love math and most people don't.

Danica McKellar

Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

Tom Shadyac

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles from textiles I went to fashion.

Roberto Cavalli

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Benjamin Carson

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Edward G. Rendell

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn