One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

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Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming

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I'm happy if I have added something to our understanding of the universe.

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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

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Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ― Alan Watts

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He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. ― Madeleine L'Engle

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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ― Arthur C. Clarke

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God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.

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