"There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room ..."

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George Eliot

#Wrath Quotes #Answers Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.”
“Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.”
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
“A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to them.' What does that say about the monkhood? He can't tolerate people with 'dust in their eyes.' All that these monks have developed here is a safe little self-centred world which they call holy because villagers bow down to them. Living in a forest and wearing a robe doesn't make you better than anybody else.”
“No nation can advance unless the old ideals of exploration and adventure are lived. There must be lives lost in flying, as in every other step of progress, and as many lives have been lost in the past, but there is no need to run foolish risks. The search for adventure need not entail foolhardiness. Fear is a tonic and danger should be something of a stimulant”
“But remember what drives a man; real men do what they have to do to make sure their people are taken care of, clothed, housed, and reasonably sastisfied, and if they're doing anything less than that, they're not men.”
“Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it.”
“Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (1864). “Tom Brown at Oxford”, p.156

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