"A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again."

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Source : Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

Horace

#Wisdom Quotes #Cages Quotes

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
“For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.”

Source : Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”
“Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. Itâ€™s a drug and makes you feel whatever the songâ€™s about.”
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
“Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.”
“Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.”
“If you think research is expensive, try disease!”

Source : "The Lasker Legacy". www.laskerfoundation.org.
“If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”

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