“Scientific research is the art of asking the right question in the right way.”
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“Self-questioning is a first step on the path to self-awareness.”
“Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.”
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
“Before undergoing a surgical operation arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.”
“To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter.”
“Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.”
“Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.”
“When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.”
“For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin.”
“The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats.”
“If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.”
“The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.”
“Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.”