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This is based upon the audio download from [http://www.Audible.com]This was more than just the event. Lots of details of life and characters living in the region before, during, and after the largest explosion on earth...the sound waves reverberated ...more "
“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.”
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“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”
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“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”
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“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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