"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."

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Source : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

Charles William Eliot

#Friendship Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Teacher Quotes

“When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you!”
“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”
“If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.”
“It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name”
“I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America,”

Source : "Outdoor Channel's Ted Nugent Says "Subhuman Mongrel" President Obama Should Be Convicted Of Treason" by Timothy Johnson, www.mediamatters.org. January 21, 2014.
“If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.”
“The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be torn apart; and if anyone persists in doing so, he gets for his trouble only imperfect and confused fragments. Yet they do not arrive all together, but they hold each other by the hand so that they follow one another in a natural order which it is dangerous to change, because they refuse to enter in any other way where they are called. ...”
“Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.”

Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.70, Vintage

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