"Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive."

-- Samuel Adams

#Pain Quotes #Children Quotes #Taken Quotes

“There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.”

Source : Kevin Powers (2012). “The Yellow Birds”, p.42, Hachette UK
“Every morning I stand on my head and do a yoga workout.”
“We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.”

Source : "Easy Access?" by Spencer Michels, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, August 7, 1997.
“Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 4, 2012
“The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.”
“I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist one. Unfortunately, from that it does not follow that there is such a solution. Many philosophers find this an unwelcome message, and as often happens in philosophy, they punish the messenger by ascribing to him an entirely imaginary but untenable position.”
“At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.”

Source : Richard Aldington, Michael Copp (2002). “An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington”, p.52, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
“Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.”

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