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- To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.
- Edith Hamilton
- We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Stephen Covey
- One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
- Unknown
- Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (referring to America)
- The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
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