"Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales."

-- Matt Prior

#Example Quotes #Failing Quotes #Tales Quotes

“Great sport has intellectual beauty.”
“Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.”
“We learn by making mistakes. If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail.”
“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do thisâ€”through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medicationâ€”we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime. One of the most difficult problems is to construct these barriers of such a height and strength that one has a true harbor, a sanctuary away from crippling turmoil and pain, but yet low enough, and permeable enough, to let in fresh seawater that will fend off the inevitable inclination toward brackishness.”
“Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.”
“To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.”
“A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.”
“It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.”

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