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"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."

Nelson Mandela

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)

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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Ezra Stiles

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As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.


Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994

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"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

Helen Keller

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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.


Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Clarke's first law

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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

Douglas Adams

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"It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it."

Thomas Jefferson

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"As you get older, people keep telling you more and more about your past!"

Mick Jagger

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"Study the past if you would define the future."

Confucius