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- The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
- Edwin Markham
- It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne
- William M. Evarts
- An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
- Arthur Chapman
- Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Honore De Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.
- Alice Duer Miller
- There is nothing displays the quickness of genius more than a dispute - as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's lustre. But perhaps the odds are against the man of taste in this particular.
- Shestone
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