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| Learning: |
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"He
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed."
- Albert Einstein |
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"When
a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let
him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's
relativity."
- Albert Einstein |
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"It
is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
- Epictetus |
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"If
you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Derek Bok |
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"The
first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth."
- J. W. Goethe |
| Creativity &
Imagination: |
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"Imagination
is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein |
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"A
painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in
the world."
- Edmond de Goncourt |
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"Reading,
after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into
lazy habits of thinking."
– Albert Einstein |
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"Art
is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
- Cicero |
| Love & Friendship: |
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"Perhaps
the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state.
Being in love shows a person who he should be."
- Anton Chekhov |
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"The
meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung |
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"There
is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in
madness."
- Friedrich Nietzsche |
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"Nobody is perfect
until you fall in love with them."
-Anonymous |
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"You
can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie |
| Life & Other: |
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"The
ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth."
- Albert Einstein |
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"Everybody
who lives, dies. But not everybody who dies has lived."
- Dhaggi Ramanashi |
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"Develop
interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the
world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls
and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- Henry Miller |
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"Two
roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost |
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"If
you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at
when you're old."
- Edgar Watson Howe |
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"Never
tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise
you with their ingenuity."
- George Patton |
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"I
always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith."
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider |
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"In
all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
- Aristotle |
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"The
Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke
stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the
danger - but recognize the opportunity."
- Richard M. Nixon |
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"Certainly,
travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep
and permanent, in the ideas of living."
- Miriam Beard |
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"Life
is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
- John Lennon |
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| Character, Ethics, &
Virtues: |
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"Nearly
all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln |
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"The
trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than
saved by criticism."
- Norman Peale |
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"How
easy is it to be virtuous when we have no inclination to be otherwise."
- Dolf Wyllarde |
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"Modesty
is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart
for truth."
- Madam Guizot |
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"Integrity
without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is
dangerous and dreadful."
- Samuel Johnson |
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"Men
are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for
experience."
- James Boswell |
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"A
man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying
another's."
- Richter |
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"A
man's character is his fate."
- Heraclitus |
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"Men
of principle are always bold, but those who are bold are not always men
of principle."
- Confucius |
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"Moderation
in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."
- Thomas Paine |
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"Try
not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein |
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