"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."

-- William Feather

#Wise Quotes #Age Quotes #Fables Quotes

“Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.”
“Responsiblity is the great developer of men.”
“I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!”

Source : Sara Jeannette Duncan (2016). “An American Girl in London”, p.77, Sara Jeannette Duncan
“McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.”
“Facts are counterrevolutionary.”
“We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us”
“I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go.”
“There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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