Famous quotes containing the words final, time and/or trial:
“And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our time as best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accidentthe luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.”
—Edward C. Banfield (b. 1916)
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