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• The only measure of a man's usefulness is the extent to which he exercises his talent, according to the laws of his own growth, for the common good.
  -- Stanley Kunitz...
• The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
• Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain the riches he can ne'er enjoy.
  -- Alexander Pope...
• If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profi
  is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man....
• An Animal that knows who it is, one that has a sense of his own identity, is a discontented creature, doomed to create new problems for himself for the duration of his stay on this planet.
  Since neither the mouse nor the chip knows what is, he is spared all the vexing problems that follow this discovery....
• An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean.
  He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint....
• An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean.
  He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint....