"Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views."

-- Geoffrey Howe

#Views Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.”
“You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.”
“When I was 2 my mom said she knew I was going to be a singer. I`ve been performing ever since I was a young kid. So I`ve known I wanted to do this for awhile. I always knew in my heart that I`d be singing.”
“Spare me the mantra that the â€œfundamentalsâ€ are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.”
“A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.”
“Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.”
“It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.”
“If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.”

Source : Samuel Johnson (écrivain), Hester Lynch Piozzi (1788). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.336

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