"The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Teacher Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”
“"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”

Source : Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”
“Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according to tradition, regular satsang, devotional singing, and so forth. Our devotion and faith give life to temples, not rituals and ceremonies. Children, we should remember this when we are involved in temple matters.”
“I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.”
“The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.”

Source : John Lachs (2014). “Freedom and Limits”, p.163, Oxford University Press
“What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.”

Source : "Philosophie Zoologique". Book by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809), Vol. I, p. 226; translation by Hugh Elliot, "Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals", p. 109, 1914.
“Give us the tools, and we will finish the job”
“You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.”

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