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Leisure

1: "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. " -Benjamin Franklin

2: "Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. " -Branch Rickey

3: "The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. " -Laurence J. Peter

4: "We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. " -Gerald Brenan

5: "In our bourgeois Western world total labor has vanquished leisure. Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture—and ourselves." -Josef Pieper

Ambition

1: "Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact, many work long hours at backbreaking jobs." -Robert Reich

2: "A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition." -John Adams

3: "Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead." -C. S. Lewis

4: "Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace." -John Cowper Powys

5: "Ambition is the death of thought." -Ludwig Wittgenstein

Society

1: "I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance." - Rubén Blades

2: "A person who cannot live in society, or does not need to because he is self-sufficient, is either a beast or a god." -Aristotle

3: "There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock." -Unknown

4: "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." -Lily Tomlin

5: "The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children." -Nelson Mandela

Regret

1: "Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. " -Basil Rathbone

2: "Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action. " -Aaron Burr

3: "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." -Publilius Syrus

4: "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. " -Lucille Ball

5: "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Alexander Graham Bell

Remorse

1: "Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. " -William C. Bryant

2: "We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. " -Jim Rohn

3: "There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. " -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

4: "One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. " -Ogden Nash

5: "The real affliction of old age is remorse." -Cesare Pavese

Peace

1: "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land." -Anwar Sadat

2: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace" -Jimi Hendrix

3: "...Peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete." -John F. Kennedy

4: "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice." -Martin Luther King Jr.

5: "There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice, and solidarity ." -Pope John Paul II

Lost

1: "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. " -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

2: "What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. " -Dan Quayle

3: "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. " -Confucius

4: "Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. " -Henry David Thoreau

5: "Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity. " -Joyce Meyer

Science

1: "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." -Marie Curie

2: "Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections a mere heart of stone." -Charles Darwin

3: "Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?" -Hans Christian Von Baeyer

4: "Let there be no doubt that as they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion." -Neil Degrasse Tyson

5: "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." -Albert Einstein

Humankind/ the human condition

1: "How dull, and how insensible a beast Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest." -John Dryden

2: "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. " -Chief Seattle

3: "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. " -e. e. cummings

4: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. " -Albert Einstein

5: "The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance. " -Kailash Satyarthi