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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ↗

— Frank Gifford

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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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The best project is one that asks a novel question. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. ↗

— William Godwin

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