"Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin."

-- Lord Acton

#World Quotes #Remember Quotes #Ill Quotes

“Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.”
“They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.”
“Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.”
“It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.”

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.
“As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,”
“The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.”
“Each one writes history according to his convenience.”
“It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.”

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