Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
JOHN DEWEYIt is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.
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… please Lady… Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish.” “You most certainly were.” “You are cruel, Evanna.
DARREN SHAN -
Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER -
Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can’t see anything.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ -
I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.
MILA KUNIS -
This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS -
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
XUNZI -
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
MAYA ANGELOU -
That was a very good way to get educated, working on the senior problems and learning how to pronounce things.
RICHARD FEYNMAN -
Peace starts within.
JANE GOODALL -
In inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observe.
ADOLPHE QUETELET -
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH -
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.
JOHNNY CASH -
Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.
ZIGGY MARLEY -
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
GEORGE ELIOT