"If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday."

-- Howard Zinn

#Yesterday Quotes #Born Quotes

“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”

Source : Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
“Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.”
“I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.”
“Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.”
“As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it...”
“South Wales is a hub of aviation.”
“When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.”
“It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. . . .[Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated.”

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