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Our labour preserves us from three great evils — weariness, vice, and want.

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Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

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I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

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Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.

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Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty.

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Work keeps away those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.

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"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."

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The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous.

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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

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Born: November 21, 1694
Died: May 30, 1778 (aged 83)
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