"Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips.”
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
“The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (1973). “On crime writing”
“There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.”
“It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.”

Source : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
“Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.”
“God ordained and established civil government, but only to serve the common good. A civil government that oppresses its people and acts contrary to the people's interests deposes itself, ceases to be a legitimate government, and, therefore, citizens are no longer obligated by Scripture to obey it.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

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