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Frank Caplan


Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.

Leo Tolstoy


I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac


Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Henry Miller


Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Robert Orben


Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

Bern Williams


September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Victor Cousin


All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

Bible


Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu


I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)


The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Peter Farquharson


Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

William James


A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.

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