"The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop."

-- Lucretius

#Water Quotes #Stones Quotes #Force Quotes

“I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.”

Source : Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”
“We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.”
“There are no social differences - till women come in.”
“I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.”
“Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.”
“If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.”
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
“You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.”

Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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