"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."

-- Alfred Russel Wallace

#Years Quotes #Tuesday Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears. You're very new at this. You may be mistaken. You've been wrong before.”
“A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.”

Source : "Euclid's Elements, Book 7, Definition 11". Book by Euclid,
“Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility.”

Source : "At Axis of Episcopal Split, an Anti-Gay Nigerian". www.nytimes.com. December 25, 2006.
“On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.”

Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “Addresses”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.”
“Dogs and other animals we bring into our homes serve as one of our most important links to Mother Nature. We may not think about it consciously, but they are our lifelines to a part of ourselves that we are at the brink of losing altogether.”
“If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.”
“I'm as famous as I want to be.”

Source : "ULLMAN, BY HOOK & BY 'CROOKS' Tracey's tireless efforts landed her a role as Woody Allen's leading lady" by Nancy Mills, www.nydailynews.com. May 14, 2000.

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