"Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity."

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Source : Letter to Horace Walpole, 25 February 1768, in H. W. Starr (ed.) 'Correspondence of Thomas Gray' (1971) vol. 3, letter 471

Thomas Gray

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“The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.”

Source : "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.”
“Germany is not a fair country. Millions of people believe that things aren't fair in this country. Company profits and bonus payments have increased at the same rate as precarious employment situations.”
“The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.”
“We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'”
“Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.”

Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.6, Library of Alexandria
“You chose me, I chose you. End of story.”
“The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.”

Source : Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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