Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.

Suzanne Collins

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

Ben Nicholson

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

Philip Warren Anderson

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Coming to Rome, much labor and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you will not find Him.

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I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

Claire McCaskill

Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.

Joan C. Harvey

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this--one dog does not change a bone with another.

Adam Smith

Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.

Steve Maraboli

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

James Russell Lowell