"Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations."

-- Nellie L. McClung

#Children Quotes #Fire Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
“Despair has its own calms.”

Source : Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.50, "F+W Media, Inc."
“But how cool, how quiet is true courage!”
“The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8
“Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.”
“I hate Sunday, I can't wait for Monday so I can go back to work again.”

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