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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J Toynbee

The quieter you become the more you can hear.
Baba Ram Dass

"I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder."
Jeff Melvoin

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle

"Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."
Ovid

"The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate."
Otto Kleppner

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H G Wells

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus

The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
Woody Allen