"What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified."

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Source : William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

William John Locke

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“You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.”
“Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.”
“What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.”
“All that spirits desire, spirits attain.”
“Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”
“You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.”
“The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nationâ€“not the advertised oneâ€“and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, thereâ€™s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just donâ€™t care enough”
“Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.”

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