The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the … - Alfred North Whitehead

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Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

Alfred North Whitehead

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

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