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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
- Thomas L. Holdcroft

Investment is an act of faith
- Keynes

Empires of the future are the empires of the mind
- W. Churchill

Out beyond the ideas of wrong doing and right doing there's a field, I'll meet you there.
- Rumi


“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
-  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Man’s most enduring stupidity is forgetting what he is trying to do,”
-  German philosopher Nietzsche’s admonition


“Negotiating … assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.”
- post-war Secretary of State Dean Acheson's trenchant observation

J.K Rowling at Harvard

Commencement Address by J.K. Rowling at Harvard (2008)


J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

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From: Gaardner, Jostein (1991): SOPHIE'S WORLD, Phoenix Paperback


'The only thing i know is that i know nothing'
- Socrates (470-399)

'What a lot of things I don't need!'
- Socrates at a marketplace


The gods are not to be feared;
Death is nothing to worry about;
Good is easy to attain;
The fearful is easy to endure.
- "Four Medicinal Herbs of the Epicureans


"Our heart is not quiet in rest until it rests in Thee"
- St. Augustine (354-430), who "christianised" Plato

"Know thyself, O divine lineage in mortal guise!"
- Marcilio Ficino

Cogito, ergo sum -- i think, therefore i am
- Descartes (1596-?)