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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously." - Henry
Kissinger

"One must look for one thing only, to find many." - Cesare Pavese

"There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life." - Homer

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step;
only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the
right road." - Dag Hammarskjold

"Those who give too much attention to trifling things become
generally incapable of great things." - La Rochefoucauld

There are spaces, silences, between thoughts, there are gaps between
moments. We must listen to those silences and see those gaps. -
Sitaram

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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. -
Woody Allen

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made
in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. -
Wernher von Braun

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to
reality. - Albert Einstein

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
ability to function. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point
is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an
understanding of ourselves. - Carl Gustav Jung

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. - Alfred North
Whitehead

A cult is a religion with no political power. - Tom Wolfe

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing
it on others. - Marcel Proust

Words have a longer life than deeds. - Pindar

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being
unable to sit still in a room. - Blaise Pascal

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more
to patient attention, than to any other talent. - Isaac Newton

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and
as cheerfully as possible. - Karl Menninger

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -
John Lennon

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. -
J. Robert Oppenheimer, re. Albert Einstein

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both
incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by
twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. - Rod Serling

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no
one has asked them. - Leo Tolstoy

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their
father's religion, if they can find out what it is. - Charles Lamb

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to vibrantly
alive in repose. - Indira Gandhi

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one;
enemy to none. - Benjamin Franklin

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
- Salvador Dali

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to
endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be
tempted to abandon some of the time-honoured principles and
commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past
generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American
values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread,
but the bread itself. - Jimmy Carter

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it. - Aristotle

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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