"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality."

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Source : "The School as a Home for the Mind : Creating Mindful Curriculum, Instruction, and Dialogue" by Arthur L. Costa, (p. 91), 2007.

George William Russell

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“If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.”
“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”
“I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter”
“...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.”
“And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?”
“May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.”
“Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.”

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