A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered in God.

Yoga Vasishtha

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

John Lancaster Spalding

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen

One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows.

Stephen Richards

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

B. W. Powe

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

James Baldwin

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H. L. Mencken

There's always a free lunch with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Sarah Louise Delany

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Charles Buxton

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death--of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

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