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— William Graham Sumner"There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study."
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Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
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When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?
— Michael Faraday
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