"When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles."

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Source : Letter to Lady Ailesbury, 10 July 1779, in 'Letters'

Horace Walpole

#Weed Quotes #Garden Quotes #People Quotes

“Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.”
“Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.”

Source : Paul Fleischman (2003). “Seek”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“Feminist education â€” the feminist classroom â€” is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.”
“The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).”
“Not only does the modern person often think that sight is more important than sound - there's no objective evidence to indicate that. Many people, even audiologists who study the science of human speech and hearing, have assumed for a long time that the human ear evolved to hear the human voice, rather than the voice changing to fit the human ear. And the human ear is actually not a perfect match if we map its sensitivity to the different frequencies in the human range of hearing; it's an unequal curve, it's kind of a wavy line.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.”
“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014
“Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.”

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