"Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds ..."

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Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

Louise Imogen Guiney

#Family Quotes #Mold Quotes #Murder Quotes

“Collective will supplants individual whim”
“Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.”
“Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes. And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.”
“Similarly for marking exercises, quantitative exercises, maybe not so much in mathematics, but certainly problem sets in physics, chemistry, and engineering and things like that where answers and methods are clear cut, absolutely. I would like to see that done online.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.”
“You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you canâ€™t choose to be unaffected by it”
“Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.”
“I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me.”

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