"I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school."

-- Lucy Maud Montgomery

#School Quotes #Broke Quotes

“A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.211
“Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.”
“Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.”
“Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.”
“... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one's own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.”
“I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.”
“The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,”
“She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.”

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