Quotes
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Richard A. Proctor

"From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness."

-- Richard A. Proctor

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“I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.”
“Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.”
“It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.”

Source : Robert Rhodes James (1987). “Anthony Eden”
“Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.”
“A single discovery within a lifetime is a very remarkable thing. Two over the course of a career-why, you'd be very lucky indeed.”
“I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.”
“Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with their child.... But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much similar to those of the teacher. In fact they feel they know their child better than anyone else and that the teacher doesn't possess any special field of authority or expertise.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)
“A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”

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