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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus (c.540-c.480 BC) Greek philosopher [also Heracleitus]
Fragment

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.

Lawrence J. Peter (1919-1990) American educator, management theorist
(Attributed)

Play every game … as if your job depended on it. It just might.

Casey Stengel (1890-1975) American athlete, coach, manager [Charles Dillon Stengel]
The Gospel According to C*A*S*E*Y, ch. 7 [ed. Berkow and Kaplan] (1992)

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
East of Eden (1952)

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) English physicist, author
A Brief History of Time (1988)