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Alfred North Whitehead


There are no whole truths all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Randy J. Hinrichs


Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.

Fred Allen


The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

Robert M. Hutchins


Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Adam L. Gordon


Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34


Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

Joseph Addison


Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Michael Levine


Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics


If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Albert Schweitzer


Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903


Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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