"Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence."

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Source : Charles Sumner (1849). “The Law of Human Progress: An Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady. July 25th, 1848”, p.26

Charles Sumner

#Ignorance Quotes #Progress Quotes #Vices Quotes

“It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.”
“These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.”

Source : "Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases" By Glen Owen, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 18, 2014.
“The world should be full of love. Love. Love is the most important thing in the world.”
“I have long been in favor of a balanced budget restriction at the level of the federal government of the United States. Because the federal government has money-creating powers it can, in fact, be very damaging if it runs a series of budget deficits. With the state government in the United States, they don't have money-creating powers. The automatic discipline imposed by the fact that they are in a common monetary unit and don't have control over the money power means that the balanced budget restriction is less needed.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca
“A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.”
“It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.”
“The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.”

Source : "A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1728.
“The magic gets lost in translation.”

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