"The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth."

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Source : Francis Galton (1874). “English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture”, p.12

Francis Galton

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“... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.”
“What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.168, Del Rey
“Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.”
“You've had your share of secrets and I'm tired of being the last to know”
“Having observed the forces of all things natural and celestial and having examined by painstaking investigation the sympathy among those things, brings into the open powers hidden and stored away in nature; thus, magic links lower things (as if they were magical enticements) to the gifts of higher things...so that astonishing miracles thereby occur.”
“The beach game taught me great lessons about how to elevate the play of my teammate, or teammates, and how to anticipate and expect the ball so much more than the indoor game ever could. It taught me - even forced me - to be a much better all-around player. That allowed me to help our USA Olympic Team in many more ways than I ever could have otherwise.”
“The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.”
“A wound thatâ€™d make an ordinary man unconscious, I wonâ€™t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I wonâ€™t lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I canâ€™t allow myself to be ordinary!”

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