If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much clevere…

Leo Szilard
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If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier. ✨ Leo Szilard, Helen S. Hawkins, G. Allen Greb, Gertrud Weiss Szilard (1987). Toward a Livable World: Leo Szilard and the Crusade for Nuclear Arms Control, p.25, MIT Press
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