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I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.
Richard P. Feynman
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Richard P. Feynman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1918
Born: May 11
Died: 1988
Died: February 15
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God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
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People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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Ordinary fools are all right you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
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