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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

— Pearl S. Buck What America Means to Me (1943)

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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

An Apple for the Teacher: Fundamentals for Instructional Computing (1983)

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

My Several Worlds (1954)

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

What America Means to Me (1943)

There is something to be said for losing one’s possessions, after nothing can be done about it.

My Several Worlds (1954)

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