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"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
"Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there."
"Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated."
"A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out."
Book Eighth Henry James The Ambassadors
"He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion."
"The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth."
Book Ninth Henry James The Ambassadors
"She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault."
Martina Horner President of Radcliffe College
"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
"Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy."
Book Eleventh Henry James The Ambassadors
"There are certainly moments, said Chad, when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true, he added, that seems to be all that need concern me."
David Brin on power and corruption
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it?s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."