Albany College of Pharmacy - Alembic Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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and even a life of aestheticism takes money; like you have to live with both beauty and the beast. one of the really good things i learned was that 'the love you take is equal to the love you make.’ then you mean to say that the only thing you learned is that in order for anything to work properly there has to be a balance of systems? yeah, that's it.

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what else did you learn? you mean outside of school? yeah. well, if i drink too much, i can't function, and if i stay up all night to study for an exam, i feel tired for days. and too many extra-curricular activities means i have less time to study, so my marks suffer. i think i’m learning that idealism is a good thing, but that i have to consider big bad reality too, if i want to get the picture straight.

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 We begin by eschewing the role as specialists who deal only in parts. Becoming deliberately expansive instead of contractive, we ask, 'How do we think in terms of wholes?’ If it is true that the bigger the thinking becomes the more lastingly effective it is, we must ask, 'How big can we think?’ R. Buckminster Fuller Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth 8