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ANTONIO CASSESE
The hope that we may be able to pass on something intellectually and emotionally valuable to our children and grandchildren is an abiding solace. An academic also has another great joy: the hope that he or she has taught a way of thinking to a goodly number of young persons. I am overjoyed to see that some of those to whom I have tried to teach the use of the intellectual tools of our job are now faring so well and have surpassed me by far in the quality of their thinking. When the ineluctable hour comes, it will find us neither dismayed nor slothful.