"In life, people will take you at your own reckoning."

-- Isaac Asimov

#People Quotes #Reckoning Quotes

“We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right”
“There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.”
“To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.”
“Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.”
“Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.”
“To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.”

Source : "The Social System - Constitution, Laws, and Regulations of a Community". Book by Robert Owen, 1826.
“The man has a curious inborn conviction of his own superiority which is quite unshakeable. All his life he has bullied and browbeaten those around him by his high-and-mightiness and his atrocious temper. As a boy he terrorized his entire family by his tantrums, when, if thwarted, he would throw himself on the floor and yell till he went blue in the face. It has been much the same ever since. Everyone's terrified of his rages. He has only to start grinding his teeth, and people fall flat before him.”
“If you donâ€™t want your life to be 'messed up', donâ€™t fool around with those who have messed up theirs.”

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