"Young children are such nasty little beasts!"

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Source : Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#Children Quotes #Littles Quotes #Nasty Quotes

“Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.”
“A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. Sheâ€™s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.”
“Prestige is the shadow of money and power.”
“Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like me who's always tried to make a living at it, it's been great, I'm very grateful for it. But at the same time, it's not a subculture-y thing anymore; it's something that's in the New York Times and the New Yorker.”
“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert.”
“Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.”
“We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.33, Courier Corporation
“It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.”

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