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 My health is good; it's my age that's bad.  To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival. Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end, but a unique event in itself. It may be bizarre, but in my opinion, science offers a sure path to God and religion. Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. - Proverbs Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do. To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood. No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. The richer your friends, the more they will cost you. The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose. If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances. I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots. 
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