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U.S. Senator John McCain and Former USN pilot, U.S. Naval Academy Commencement Address, 1993

“As ensigns and second lieutenants, the character of the young sailors and Marines entrusted to your care will be formed in large part by their appreciation of your character. You are where leadership begins. You are the models who stand just past the sergeants and chiefs, and those under your command will derive from your behavior the direction of their own lives. Their firm respect for you, on which their lives and our security will depend, will be determined by how faithfully you keep, on duty and off, the code you learned here.

I will go to my grave in gratitude to my Creator for allowing me to stand witness to such courage and honor. And so will you. My time is slipping by. Yours is fast approaching. You will know where your duty lies. You will know. God bless you. Semper Fi. Fair winds and following seas.”

– – U.S. Senator John McCain and Former USN pilot, U.S. Naval Academy Commencement Address, 1993

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Favorite quote about the power of children’s imagination – by Arthur Rackam

“I can only say that I firmly believe in the greatest stimulating and educative power of imaginative, fantastic, and playful pictures and writings for children in their most impressionable years – a view that most unfortunately, I consider, has its opponents in these matter-of-fact days. Children will make no mistake in the way of confusing the imaginative and symbolic with actual. Nor are they blind to decorative or abstractly designed treatment in art, any more than they are to poetic or rhythmic form in literature. And it must be insisted on that nothing less than the best that can be had, cost what it may (and it hardly can be cheap), is good enough for those early impressionable years when standards are formed for life. Any accepting, or even choosing art or literature of a lower standard as good enough for children is a disastrous and costly mistake. ” – Arthur Rackham

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Cat’s meow

Albert Einstein:
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

Then again, Einstein was a bit of a wag. Consider his explanation of wireless communication: “The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.” This quote reportedly kept Schrödinger awake well past his bedtime.

English: Albert Einstein Français : Portrait d...
English: Albert Einstein Français : Portrait d’Albert Einstein (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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