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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
—Henry David Thoreau
(In memory of Martin Luther King)

  Cynicism is chic, but costly.
Surrender or withdrawal challenges nothing.
We must engage, engage, engage to make things happen.
—Jesse Jackson.
   After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
—T S Eliot
  Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
—Alfred North Whitehead
  The trouble with professors today is that they don't believe what they know.
—Charles Olson
  Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
—Jose Ortega y Gasset
  The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover there is no reason.
—John Cage