"I have often been asked if I have accumulated any wisdom that I would like to share with future generations. To my precious daughter Nicole, and all the young people in the world, I offer one simple insight. In my life I have found two things of priceless worth -- learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possibly have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say, 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say, 'I have been happy.'"
- Pierre des Jardin, a character in the novel Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee (1990).
"Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."
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