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I'm not perfect... But I'm enough.
 
A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.
 
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
 
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
 
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.
 
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive. 
 
Who rules our symbols, rules us.
 
Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.
 
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
 
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness. Is this not what is actually taking place all over the world? Our present education is geared to industrialization and war, its principal aim being to develop efficiency; and we are caught in this machine of ruthless competition and mutual destruction. If education leads to war, if it teaches us to destroy or be destroyed, has it not utterly failed?
 
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
 
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
 
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 
 
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
 
It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
 
A living system, due to its circular organization, is an inductive system and functions always in a predictive manner: what happened once will occur again. Its organization, (genetic and otherwise) is conservative and repeats only that which works. For this same reason living systems are historical systems; the relevance of a given conduct or mode of behavior is always determined in the past.
 
Trump can run for president with no political experience but I need a masters and 5 years experience for an entry level job.
 
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
 
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
 
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
 
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