"Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing."

-- T. S. Eliot

#Clouds Quotes #Design Quotes #Accidents Quotes

“I like people-watching and fading into crowds.”
“What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.”
“Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.”
“Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.”
“I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.”

Source : Harry S. Dent (2000). “The Roaring 2000s Investor: Strategies for the Life You Want”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.”
“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”
“Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.”

Source : Maria Jane McIntosh (1851). “Grace and Isabel: Or, to Seem and to be”, p.196

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