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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. — Warren G. Bennis
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees… — Joan D. Chittister
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather.… — Sylvia Earle
It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. — Edith Widder
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. — Barack Obama
The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know. — Isaac Asimov
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the… — Hippocrates
The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,… — Lewis Thomas
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. — E. O. Wilson
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship. — H. M. Tomlinson
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most… — William Cowper
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. — H. L. Mencken
We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away. — Saint Augustine
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more… — John Stuart Mill
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property. — Alexander Shulgin

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