"Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning."

-- George Eliot

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“It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.”
“I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.”
“I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.”
“I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me”
“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.”

Source : John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag
“The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a tribal structure in which to accomplish both in balance. It used to be that the tribe formed a boy's character while the peer group existed primarily to test and befriend that character. Nowadays, boys' characters are often formed in the peer group. Mentors and intimate role models rarely exist to show the growing boy in any long-term and consistent way how both to serve a group and flourish as an independent self.”

Source : Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.71, Penguin
“Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.”
“I can connect anything to anything,”

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