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When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happines

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. – George Porter

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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me. – George Porter

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strength
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It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family. – George Porter

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Happiness
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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the suns energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. – George Porter

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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. – Joseph Addison

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Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. – Albert Schweitzer

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. – Lady Blessington

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History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. – Wendell Willkie

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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In any relationship that comes to an end, theres never just a baseline reason why. You say, Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend. Someone says, Why? You say, Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, youve got to talk to her. – Michael Rapaport

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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. – Kenneth L. Pike

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. – Manuel Puig

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