"Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose."

-- Jerome Wiesner

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“Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.”
“The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.”
“Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.”
“I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.”

Source : Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.60, Vintage
“That's it. Love makes us all strong.”
“I do think one should have clean feet.”
“The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated”

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