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I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

Linus Pauling

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: ‘Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.’ The twenty-five percent is for error.
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Errors Expectation Gold Mistake Rule Yourself
I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.
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Decision Enjoyment Joy Life Myself Person Preparation Thinking Try
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Fact Fly Science Yourself
Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.
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Agreement Goodness Nation
Life is a relationship between molecules.
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Life One Liner Relationship Science
There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.
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Harm Radiance Safety
The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.
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Policy Sanity War World
Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.
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Body Correction Nutrition Sick
Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
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Game Harm Rival Science Search Truth Try
Science is the search for truth.
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One Liner Science Truth
I think that the formation of [DNA’s] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.
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Development Formation Greatness Science Structure Thinking
Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
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Authority Better Decision Fact Happiness Leadership Life Medicine Politics Work World
I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.
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Believe Evil Force Goodness Greatness Humanity Military Moral Power World
I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.
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Myself Possible World
Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.
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Civilization Communication Evolution Greatness Man Power Remember Responsibility Thinking
Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.
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College Myself Nature Study World

I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

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