"....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future."

-- Hendrik Willem van Loon

#Sea Quotes #Long Quotes #Goal Quotes

“The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste for National and Local Antiquities. Geology gratifies a larger taste of this kind; it inquires into what may appropriately be termed the Antiquities of the Globe itself, and collects and deciphers what may be considered as the monuments and medals of its remoter eras.”

Source : William Buckland (1820). “Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology”, p.6
“People make fun of Jersey girls, but I think they're just jealous.”
“When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.”
“There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?”
“Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.”

Source : Andrew Jackson Davis (1866). “The History and Philosophy of Evil: With Suggestions for More Ennobling Institutions, and Philosophical Systems of Education”, p.89
“This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.”

Source : "The decades of Henry Bullinger".
“I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.”
“Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.”

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