"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Pp. 779-80, 1922.

Antisthenes

#Running Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Mad Quotes

“I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared - mentally, physically and spiritually - for our separation from this world.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature. [Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]”
“It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And, rare for me, I wrote scenes out of sequence. . . . I didn't understand the play when I wrote it. It was something I'd give in to. It happens to me periodically. I give over and write whatever comes to me and I don't know what it means and then I do. It's thrilling.”
“Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in.”
“In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.”
“Children with special needs inspire a special love.”
“A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and you know you're speaking, even, but you still have no idea how you will say it. Or the moment when, as a reader, you're reading, and you are understanding what you are reading, but still have utterly no idea what will come next for you, what precisely the author wants to say. For me, that is the ultimate level of literary depth, of literary density.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“We are a lot more alike than we are different and it's important to remember that.”

Source : Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 2, 2011.

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