"Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

#Spring Quotes #Mean Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.”
“You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.”

Source : "The Importance of Literacy: A Q & A With Author Walter Dean Myers". Interview with Earl Martin Phalen, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.
“Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.”
“Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.”

Source : "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.
“Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.”
“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”
“I will never understand the appeal of the Hawaiian pizza.”
“Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.”

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