"You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
-Alan Alda
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"Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.“
-Alan Alda
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