Cathy Freeman Quotes

The opposite of work is idleness. But very few of us know what to do with idleness. When you look at the way that we distribute our lives in general, you realize that in the periods in which we have a lot of money, we have very little time. And then when we finally have time, we have neither the money nor the health.

It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

Richard II by William Shakespeare

No state is forever strong or forever weak. If those who uphold the law are strong, the state will be strong; if they are weak, the state will be weak.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

The 'Mahalanobis Era' in statistics which started in the early twenties has ended. Indeed it will be remembered for all time to come as the golden period of statistics in India, marked by intensive development of a new technology and its applications for the welfare of mankind.

Frank Harper - Alan Paxton

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

Seng in "Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and the Development of Population Statistics in India

The bigger that your career gets, the smaller your life gets.

Hamish Linklater - Richard Roth

[https://web.archive.org/web/20051124140305/http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog49/hsinhsinmingtranslations.htm Hsin Hsin Ming — side by side translations of Richard B. Clarke and D. T. Suzuki]