It was wonderful to find America,
but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much;
if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated.
It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.
However able and faithful he may be in other respects,
people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature
opposition to it is his love of justice.
These principles are an eternal antagonism;
and when brought into collision so fiercely,
as slavery extension brings them,
shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
A man watches his pear tree day after day,
impatient for the ripening of the fruit.
Let him attempt to force the process,
and he may spoil both fruit and tree.
But let him patiently wait,
and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to
those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect,
it is when I contemplate the cause of my country,
deserted by all the world beside,
and I standing up boldly and lone
and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India.
We have to invest in a big way,
and I am pushing that idea.
While children are struggling to be unique,
the world around them is trying all means to make them
look like everybody else.