"Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth."
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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.“
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"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
-Tyrone Power
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
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"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
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"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
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"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked."
-Abdus Salam
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