"If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you."

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Source : 1961 Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23 Jun.

Robert F. Goheen

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“Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.”

Source : Bikram Choudhury, Bonnie Jones Reynolds, Julian Goldstein (2000). “Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class”, Tarcher
“I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat.”

Source : James Herriot (2011). “Three James Herriot Classics: All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, and All Things Wise and Wonderful”, p.877, Open Road Media
“Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.”

Source : "Oxford cut early dash to set Light Blues up for the chop", www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2006.
“you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.”
“Ladies Commit, There's A Wedding In It For You.”
“It is relatively unusual that a physical scientist is truly an atheist. Why is this true? Some point to the anthropic constraints, the remarkable fine tuning of the universe. For example, Freeman Dyson, a Princeton faculty member, has said, 'Nature has been kinder to us that we had any right to expect.'”
“Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.”
“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”

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