"We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face."

-- Moshe Sharett

#Military Quotes #Political Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.”
“A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on the other hand, are messy, inexact things, which are believed by everyone except the man who did that work.”
“'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.”

Source : Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117
“Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.114, Hachette UK
“Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.”
“The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.”
“In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.”
“I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth.”

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