Edward Victor Appleton

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“We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.”
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“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. We love to see animals fighting, not the victor raving over the vanquished.... It is the same in gambling, and the same in the search for truth.... We never seek things for themselves—what we seek is the very seeking of things.”
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“Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.”
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