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Lord Byron 1788-1824 The power of thought, -- the magic of the mind.[The Corsair] Chinese proverb Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi 1828-1910 Our body is a machine for living. Publius Syrus First Century B.C. Every day should pass as if were our last. Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986 Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is the fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simpliest things ....[Death in the Afternoon] Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ![]() Time is but the stream I go fishing in. Graham Wallas 1858-1932 How can I know what I think till I see what I say? Walter Lippmann 1889-1974 When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Albert Einstein 1879-1955 ![]() What I am really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all. William of Occum 1300-1349 Frustra fit perplura, quod fieri per pauciora.[Occum's Razor] Alexander Pope A little learning is a dang'rous thing; John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. Adlai Stephenson 1900-1965 Via ovicipitum dura est. Burrhus Frederic Skinner 1904-1990 Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. Robert E. Lee The education of a man is never completed until he dies. Max Lerner 1902- We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather, and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living. Dylan Thomas 1914-1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 What is the answer? [pause] What is the question?[Her last words.] |
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