"I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough."

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Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

Lucy Larcom

#Slave Quotes #Enough Quotes #Incessant Quotes

“I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.”

Source : "Who's to blame?" by Lewis Wolpert, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2002.
“Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.”
“No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.”
“I'm too mature to be angry.”
“This has been, all in all, a memorable day. If my luck holds out, I should get hit by a truck on my way home.”
“There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.”
“There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.”
“You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us â€“- not someone like the rest of the world â€“- if we are to have any godly influence on them.”

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