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"You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
    -- Aristotle Plato
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
    -- Mark Twain
"If 5th century BC Pythagoras discovered algebraic theorems, if 19th century Darwin discovered the evolution of species, then what topics does the 21st century mind explore? I would say evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks."
    -- Luigi Mangione
"I feel lucky for my 21st century education. I get to simply download the knowledge of all who came before me, allowing me to stand on their shoulders and ponder new problems they never would have had access to."
    -- Luigi Mangione

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"My first company was with Warren Avis, who started Avis Rent a Car. I remember getting $60,000 [as a payout when leaving the company]. I was 25 years old. I said to my wife, 'I'm really happy, but I'm really sad, because I'm never going to make this much money again.' It was the biggest check I'd ever seen."
    -- Robert Herjavec
"No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems."
    -- Anne Rice
"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."
    -- Alfred North Whitehead


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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.Get Image

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.Get Image

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.Get Image

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.Get Image

On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.Get Image




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