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And now, I am dying beyond my means.[Sipping champagne on his deathbed]

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.[Last words of Pancho Villa]

What is the answer?… [Silence]… In that case, what is the question?

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?

Courage! I have shown it for years. Think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Thomas Jefferson -- still surv…

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.

You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training. -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the unsolvable problem by inventing Nautilus.

Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.