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- The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ..
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Autobiographical Notes"
- We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
- Jassamyn West
- Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other.
- Baha'u'llah
- We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
- I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
- Shunryu Suzuki
- Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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