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"Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy."

Albert Einstein

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''If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.''

A. P. Gouthey

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

William Wordsworth 1770-1850: 'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807)

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"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable."

Plato

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“An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.”

Benjamin Franklin

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"May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown."

Homer

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''The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.''

Sallust

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“Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.”

Buddha

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''A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.''

H. L. Mencken

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“O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapor”

Lord Byron