"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."

-- Herbert Hoover

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“One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting all the scenes of the great murders. Tomorrow they want to see where Becket was killed. They're a bloodthirsty lot, it seems.”
“Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.”

Source : "From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics". Book by William Bragg Ewald, 1996.
“I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.”
“Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.”
“Life is a journey, photography is thy shepherd.”
“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”
“The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.”

Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.296, Simon and Schuster
“Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.”

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