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Integration, Innnovation, Life Sustainability
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Energy = Work ::: Balance and Focus
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A Collection of Interesting Quotations

Everyone may not agree with each of the following quotations or with other positions and statements made by their respective authors and speakers.

These are not "official" on the part of the Institute or any organization connected with the Institute, CIBI, ARCS, TetradynGroup or other related organizations.

However, each one is a voice out of some time that was and is speaking to all of us, often in ways that are quite different and in contrast to the meanings that may have been perceived by others, whether days or years or centuries ago.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
{Helen Keller}

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. {Albert Einstein}

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. {Martin Luther King}

Frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right. {Robert E. Lee}

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. {Buckminster Fuller}

Pluralitas non est ponenda sin necessitate. {William of Occam}

Having one thing, to know ten thousand things. {Musashi Miyamoto}

Mais quand une regle est fort composee, ce qui luy est conforme, passe pour irregulier. {Gottfried Leibniz}

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. {Henri-Louis Bergson}

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. {Sophocles}

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. {George Bernard Shaw}

One Word of Truth Outweighs the World. {Alexander Solzhenitsyn}

Semper fidelis ("Semper Fi")



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