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I was not a child prodigy

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.