"What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know."

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Source : "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

Jacques Maritain

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“Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more realâ€¦ He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understandâ€¦”

Source : Harold Bell Wright (1907). “The Shepherd of the Hills”
“What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.”
“Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation, pleasure, distress and delight. They are whole children responding in a total way, and what they feel is a constant factor that can be constructive or destructive in any learning situation.”
“The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.”
“You just get better with age. You learn yourself and the league. I'm starting to understand more about hitting every year.”
“Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.”
“I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com
“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.”

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