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"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago." »Julius Robert Oppenheimer
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"There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games." »Earnest Hemingway
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping." »Orville Wright
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"Celibacy is not hereditary." »Guy Goden
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"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites." »Sigmund Freud
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"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children." »Sam Levenson
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"Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either." »Joseph Fischer
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"It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary." »Author Unknown
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"Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable." »Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." »Thomas Paine
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." »Carl Sagan
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"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." »Albert Einstein
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"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven." »Woody Allen
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"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car." »Edward De Bono
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