"For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do."

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Source : George Linnaeus Banks (1853). “Pearls from the Belfry: Lyrics”, p.30

George Linnaeus Banks

#Kindness Quotes #Distance Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.”
“I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.”

Source : Speech in the Senate (1848)
“Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.”
“The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.”
“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”
“From this time everything was copulated. Acetic, formic, butyric, margaric, &c., acids, alkaloids, ethers, amides, anilides, all became copulated bodies. So that to make acetanilide, for example, they no longer employed acetic acid and aniline, but they re-copulated a copulated oxalic acid with a copulated ammonia. I am inventing nothing-altering nothing. Is it my fault if, when writing history, I appear to be composing a romance?”

Source : David M. Knight, Auguste Laurent (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Chemical method”, p.204, Taylor & Francis
“What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?”
“no one had to tell me anything. I know what I am”

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