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• Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
• One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. -- Marie Curie
• The only thing we have to fear is no more beer.
• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
  -- Marie Curie (standard advice to reporters seeking interviews) The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men....
• I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. -- Marie Curie
• XLVII: Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
  The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters....
• It's just like life. Only more so.
• No, I understand now," Auberon said, calm in the woods -- it was so simple, really.
  I didn't, for a long time, but I do now. You just can't hold people, you can't own them....
• From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved.
  One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....