"To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session."

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“Ambiguity: the bastard child of creativity and cowardice.”

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“Romantic: one who professes to prefer the thorns to the rose.”

“A good listener is one who helps us overhear ourselves.”

“Like cars in an amusement park, our direction is often determined through collisions.”

“The thoughts we choose to act upon define us to others, the ones we do not define us to ourselves.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Boxing has become America’s tragic theater."

— Joyce Carol Oates

Literature1938

#suffering

"Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have peopl…"

— Edgar Degas

Art1834–1917

#time

"For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge... Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven kno…"

— Imre Lakatos

Philosophy1921–1974

#knowledge

"The ambition for broad acres leads to poor farming, even with men of energy. I scarcely ever knew a mammoth farm to sustain itself; much less to return a profit upon the outlay. I have more than once …"

— Abraham Lincoln

Politics1744–1786

#money