"I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Common Sense Quotes #Profound Quotes #Words Of Wisdom Quotes

“Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.”
“I have no notions of a perfect society, I donâ€™t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what weâ€™ve got, Iâ€™m no utopian, Iâ€™m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we donâ€™t live that way, weâ€™ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.”
“Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (2004). “Harriet Martineau: Studies of America, 1831-1868”
“Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.”
“People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.”
“While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.”
“People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.”
“When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.”

Source : Elizabeth Streb (2010). “Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero”, p.51, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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