"Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise."

-- Margaret Halsey

#Exercise Quotes #Boys Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.”
“It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .”

Source : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.98, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I think anybody who has been in Washington for almost 40 years has been there too long.”
“I loved the idea that biology was logical.”
“But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.”

Source : Wang Anyi (2008). “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai”, p.199, Columbia University Press
“The cynic makes fun of all earnestness; he makes fun of everything and everyone who feels that something can be done. . . . But in his heart of hearts he knows that he is a defeated man and that his cynicism is merely an expression of the fact that he has lost courage and is beaten.”
“We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.”
“The white establishment is now the minority.”

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