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"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." »Lord Kelvin
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"Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather." »Jordan, Robert
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"Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain." »Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
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"A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth." »Dag Hammarskjold, newspaper quote of the day
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"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier." »Bill Gates
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"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency." »William Carlos Williams
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture." »Mick Lloyd Kerman
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"When you see a man elated with pride, glorying in his riches and high descent, rising even above fortune, look out for his speedy punishment; for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a heavier crash." »Menander
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"If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear." »Rolland W. Schloerb
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"It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." »Henry Brougham
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"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences." »Benjamin Disraeli
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