"It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience."

-- Garrett Hardin

#Running Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.”

Source : Zorach v. Clauson (dissenting opinion) (1952)
“We need to look at what Europe is doing to get better and try to get better ourselves. We need to make some changes and that can only be good for the game. Tolstoy once said, 'Everybody wants to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.' So we all have to change our thinking and focus on getting our kids better.”
“[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.”
“There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.”
“The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!”
“There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture.”
“What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider”
“The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.”

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