"Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels."

-- Joseph Fort Newton

#Baggage Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Scenery Quotes

“I'm generally intimidated by adults.”

Source : "Emmys 2012: 'The Big Bang Theory's' Mayim Bialik - a Smart Bet (Q&A)". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2012.
“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”
“There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.”

Source : "Reimagining Romeo and Juliet" by Karen Kain, www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 15, 2011.
“And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.”
“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.”

Source : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
“An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1906). “The History of Creation: Or The Development of the Earth and Its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes. A Popular Exposition of the Doctrine of Evolution in General, and of that of Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck in Particular. From the 8th German Ed. of Ernst Haeckel ... The Translation Rev. by E. Ray Lankester”
“There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.”
“The other side of midnightâ€™s hour strikes a herald thrice rung Seer, Shadow, Sunâ€”together they come Sixteen winters henceâ€”the light shall be eclipsed Leaving darkness to ascend beneath a sky bleeding fire”

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