"I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching,"

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Thomas P. Campbell

#Book Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.”
“If you drink like a fish, don't drive: swim.”
“I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.”

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“You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.”
“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.”

Source : Jim Stovall (2015). “Ultimate Hindsight: Wisdom from 100 Super Achievers”, p.191, Sound Wisdom
“I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.”
“Truly it has been said that there is nothing new under the sun, for knowledge is revealed and is submerged again, even as a nation rises and falls. Here is a system, tested throughout the ages, but lost again and again by ignorance or prejudice, in the same way that great nations have risen and fallen and been lost to history beneath the desert sands and in the ocean depths.”
“No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.162, Univ of California Press

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