"Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit."

-- Chinmayananda Saraswati

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“Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.”
“The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I don’t like to quote myself but unfortunately everybody I know who should be quoting me is dead.”
“Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.”

Source : Letter to Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein, 12 Aug. 1856. Sometimes quoted as "Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
“[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.”
“Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.”

Source : Stuart Cloete (1947). “The Third Way”
“Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.”

Source : "NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.
“Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.”

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