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Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance, 1994, p. 287
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
T. S Eliot
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.
Eric Hoffer
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
George Frost Kennan
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
Norbert Wiener
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
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