Ability without honor is useless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. – Agatha Christie
Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. – Edward Abbey
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains – Napoleon Bonaparte
There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults – Curtis W. Fentress
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. – John Steinbeck
Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information — hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations. – Walter Benjamin
