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“Each lost day has its patron saint!”
Source : Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.118, VM eBooks
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“What do you do when you get out of the military, you stop serving? There are 26 presidents who served in the military. More than half of our presidents... that means that you stop being an American?”
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“The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable.”
Source : "Miscellaneous Scientific Papers".
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“Truth always prevails. And I believe in that. I believe in God.”
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“I would do this for free as long as you're doing it for free.”
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“When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.”
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“I draw like other people bite their nails.”
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“A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.”
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“While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.”
Source : Letter from Secretary Steven Chu to Energy Department Employees, energy.gov. February 01, 2013. 
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“Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.”
Source : "Quote for the Day II". The year 1979 quote, www.theatlantic.com. January 09, 2007.
