“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.” — Confucius, Analects (bk. II, ch. XV)

“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Ferris Bueller, in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”

I’ve always been told the third time’s a charm, and I’ve always wondered why this is so. Under English law, anyone who survived three hanging attempts was to be set free (with a lifetime supply

In 1974 Henry Kissinger said, “As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.”