- Success in any realm of life comes more often from taking chances or risks than from careful and cautious planning.
- It is not the headline-making political events but the seldom-reported social tranformations that have the most lasting significance.
- The best preparation for life or a career is not learning to be competitive, but learning to be cooperative.
- The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus.
- Technology creates more problems than it solves, and may threaten or damage the quality of life.
- The material progress and well-being of one country are necessarily connected to the material progress and well-being of all other countries.
- Instead of encouraging conformity, society should show greater appreciation of individual differences.
- Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people, but from individuals.
- The most elusive knowledge is self-knowledge, and it is usually acquired through solitude, rather than through interaction with others.
- The purpose of education should be to provide students with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas.
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