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The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too. (Quote by - Ching-an)

What was once thought can never be unthought. (Quote by - Carl J. Friedrich)

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it. (Quote by - Janet Jackson)

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. (Quote by - Baudjuin)

An unexamined life is not worth living. (Quote by - Socrates)

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. (Quote by - Arnold Bennet)

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. (Quote by - E. S. Bouton)

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. (Quote by - Leo Aikman)

The road to success runs uphill. (Quote by - Willie Davis)

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. (Quote by - Norman Angell)

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. (Quote by - Jon R. Sime)

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. (Quote by - Rene Daumal)

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. (Quote by - James A. Froude)

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)

The end and aim of all education is the development of character. (Quote by - Francis W. Parker)

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others. (Quote by - Frederic William Maitland)

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley. (Quote by - General Omar Bradley)

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. (Quote by - Johnson)

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way. (Quote by - George Leonard)

Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Quote by - Hamming)

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. (Quote by - Jerry Chin)

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. (Quote by - Ellen Barkin)

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