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“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”— Tennessee Williams
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”— Albert Einstein
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”— C. S. Lewis
“Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.”— Sophocles
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”— George Bernard Shaw
“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”— Albert Camus
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”— Theodore Roosevelt
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”— Maya Angelou
“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”— Ray Bradbury
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton