"It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality."

-- James Loeb

#Growing Up Quotes #Latin Quotes #Our Generation Quotes

“Giving up is not an option if you want to succeed. If you really want to be in business, and it's something you can't live without, you just have to keep going. And one day that shot will be given to you.”
“If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? Some cost a passing bell; Some a light sigh, That shakes from Life's fresh crown Only a rose-leaf down. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung the bell, What would you buy?”
“There are no crown princes at Ford,”
“To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world”

Source : Jim Holt (2012). “Why Does the World Exist?: One Man's Quest for the Big Answer”, p.96, Profile Books
“The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.”
“Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.”
“An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.”
“The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.”

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