"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it."

-- Horace Mann

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“If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.”
“It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.”
“We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.”
“In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.”
“I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.”
“There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.”

Source : Interview with Anthony Domestico, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 16, 2014.
“There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed.”
“Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.”

Source : Paracelsus (1967). “The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy”

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