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The unexamined life is not worth living. 

- Socrates

The power which resides in him [each person] is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

- Albert Einstein

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

- Epicurus

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ..

- Charles Dickens 

It is the worst misfortune of all when by false reasoning we come to accept the perverse notion that things have to be as they are. 

- Petrarch

Carpenters fashion wood; fletchers fashion arrows; the wise fashion themselves.

- The Buddha

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age. 

- Albert Einstein

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

- Winston Churchill 

The Sphinx must solve her own riddle.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

When fortune comes, seize her firmly by the forelock, for I tell you, she is bald at the back. 

- Leonardo da Vinci

Hope lies in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

- Jonas Salk 

And if you don't know where you're going

Any road will take you there

- George Harrison 

Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.  

- Henry Ford 

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got

Till it’s gone

- Joni Mitchell    

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu    

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. 

- Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom begins in wonder.

- Attributed to Socrates 

If life is a stage, I'd like better lighting.

- Button 

... but all the relevant facts were outside the range of their vision.  They were like the ant, which can see small objects but not large ones.

- George Orwell, 1984

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

- Thomas Jefferson   

I want to live

I want to give

I've been a miner for a heart of gold

- Neil Young     

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. 

- Abraham Lincoln   

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

- T. S. Eliot     

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam. 

- Hannibal, Oedipus, Francis Bacon, etc. 

Character is destiny. 

- Heraclitus