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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#decencies #dwell #endeavour #ever #finds

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. ↗

— John Pople

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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward. ↗

— John Pople

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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier. ↗

— John Pople

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They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

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Certainties are arrived at only on foot. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#certainties #foot #only

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#character #difficulty #fall #live #love

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. ↗

— Karl Popper

#elevated #histories #history #human #human life

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

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