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"Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life."
"E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers von Seinem Energieghalt Abhangig? 1905"
"... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them."
"Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences."
"The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success."
"When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?"
"To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you."
"The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability"
"People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there."
"Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark."
"Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit."
"Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure."
"In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure."
"People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling."
"Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit."
"You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get."
"You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark"
"At the moment, our society’s notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it’s time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back."
"If today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today"
"In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day."
