"Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them."

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Source : Constance Fenimore Woolson (1892). “Anne”

Constance Fenimore Woolson

#House Quotes #Theory Quotes #Scaffolding Quotes

“I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.”
“My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.”
“I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.”

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“I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.”
“Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.”
“The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.”

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“It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.”
“The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.”

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