"Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult."

-- Thomas Aquinas

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“Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed ... that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy.”

Source : James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
“Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.”
“Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.”

Source : Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.152, Cambridge University Press
“I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.”
“I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.”
“Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.”
“Everywhere I go, somebody is staring at me, I don't know if people are staring because they recognize me or because they think I'm a weirdo.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

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