"A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in."

-- Nellie L. McClung

#Heart Quotes #Tree Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society... then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them... We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

Source : Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and its Enemies”, p.668, Routledge
“Man has become great through struggle”
“Positive attitude accelerates your development as a creative person. Believe in yourself.”
“The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.”
“If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.”
“I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.”
“A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.”
“History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”

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