"The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent."

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Source : Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

Charles Eliot Norton

#Fall Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?”
“I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!”
“I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds.”
“It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.”
“We cannot train women and forget about the men. We should train men to know the potential of women.”
“You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it”
“History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.”

Source : "Making another rush at history - Smith shooting for 1,000-yard season" by Rick Gosselin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. C8, August 10, 2003.
“One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.”

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