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2 “The longer you look at it the less you will like it.” I was only hinting at my photo and not the PowerPoint Show. This I suggest you should share. (George Sciberras) “The longer you look at it the less you will like it.” (George Sciberras 1944 - )

3 "Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education... Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education." (Jean Jacques Rousseau)

4 "Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?" (Michel de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592)

5 “"Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterwards based on such principles was highly doubtful: and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions I had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation, if I desired to establish a firm and abiding superstructure in the sciences."….. Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650)

6 "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." (Louis Pasteur, 1822 - 1895)

7 "The educated differ from the uneducated, as the living from the dead." (Aristotle, 384 - 322 B.C.)

8 “To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned, isn't that a pleasure?” (Confucius, 551 - 479 B.C.)

9 "All things come out of the One and the One out of all things." (Heraclitus, 500 B.C.)

10 "The object of education is to teach us love of beauty." (Plato, 427 - 347 B.C.)

11 "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;... the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." (Galileo Galilei, 1564 - 1642)

12 “There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.“ Charles Darwin (1809- 1882)

13 'Creativity takes courage.... The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.' Henri Matisse (1869 –1954)

14 'The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.’ Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

15 'Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.' (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 1606 – 1669)

16 "Springtime is upon us. The birds celebrate her return with festive song, and murmuring streams are softly caressed by the breezes. Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar, casting their dark mantle over heaven, Then they die away to silence, and the birds take up their charming songs once more...." Classical Musician, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741).

17 Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." Classical Music Composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827).

18 “The aim and final reason of all music should be nothing else but the Glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit." German Baroque Composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750).

19 “Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream." Classical Music Composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 -1791).

20 "A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945)

21 "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." 34 th American President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).

22 "We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of arms." 39th American President, Jimmy Carter (1924 - ).

23 "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” 35th American President, John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).

24 "I have a dream that...my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King Jr, (1929-1968)

25 "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).

26 "Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought." French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821).

27 "If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man & universe, then morality is the indication & explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains one or other relationship to the universe." (Leo Tolstoy 1828 - 1910)

28 "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword." (Jesus of Nazareth / Jesus Christ)


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