"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by
the level of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
- Christopher Columbus
"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but
this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in
their imagination far ahead of the crowd."
- Unknown
"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow
evil because it isn't angry enough."
- Bede Jarrett, The House of Gold
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent."
- John Donne
Devotions, 1624
"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the
voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and
you will realize the unity of all things."
- Dogen (1200-1253)
Japanese religious leader
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our
country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all
their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of
being whole is reduced to half."
- Plato
The Laws
"I take as my guide the hope of a saint:
in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . .
in all things, generosity."
- George Bush (1924)
US 41st president
Inaugural Address, 1989