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Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

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Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

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The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

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Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

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Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Brooks Atkinson

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Born: November 28, 1894
Died: January 14, 1984 (aged 89)
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