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Exercise Invigorates The Body And Sharpens The Mind.

Whatever It Is You Seek, You Have To Put In The Time, The Practice, The Effort. You Must Give Up A Lot To Get It. It Has To Be Very Important To You. And Once You Have Attained It, It Is Your Power. It Can't Be Given Away : It Resides In You. It Is Literally The Result Of Your Discipline.

Scientific Research Was Much Like Prospecting: You Went Out And You Hunted, Armed With Your Maps And Instruments, But In The Ened Your Preparations Did Not Matter, Or Even Your Intuition. You Needed Your Luck, And Whatever Benefits Accrued To The Diligent, Through Sheer, Grinding Hard Work.

We Think We Know What We Are Doing. We Have Always Thought So. We Never Seem To Acknowledge That We Have Been Wrong In The Past, And So Might Be Wrong In The Future. Instead, Each Generation Writes Off Earlier Errors As The Result Of Bad Thinking By Less Able Minds - And Then Confidently Embarks On Fresh Errors Of Its Own.

Friendships Are Nice. So Is Competence.