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• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
  Paul Valery...
• The only true knowledge, consists in knowing, that we know nothing, -- Socrate
• We should have been excused from lugging a body: the burden of the self was enough. -- E.M. Ciora
• Without the faculty of forgetting our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• Must we force ourselves to forget the anguish and the wounds of the past so we can look to the future and move forward?
  And by forgetting these wounds let them fester in our souls? -- Ba Ji...
• Our country is still young and its potential is still enormous.
  We should remember, as we look toward the future, that the more fully we believe in and achieve freedom and equal opportunity -- not simply for ourselves but for others -- the greater our accomplishments as a nation will be....
• Normally our rules are rigid; we tend to discretion, if for no other reason than self-protection.
  We never recommend any of our graduates, although we cheerfully provide information as to those who have failed their courses....