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- It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
- Unknown
- Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
- Unknown
- People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
- Knights of Pythagoras
- From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. - Visions of Gregorian Chants
- Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
- What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
- William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
- The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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