"The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter."

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Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)

Joshua Reynolds

#Learning Quotes #Mind Quotes #Matter Quotes

“While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization,”
“C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.”
“I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.”
“Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.”

Source : "Q & A With Marco Pierre White: Escoffier, Television, Packaged Soup + The French Foreign Legion". Interview with Amy Scattergood, www.laweekly.com. August 18, 2011.
“Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.”
“Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'”
“Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'”
“There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.”

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