"I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time."

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Pierre Loti

#Museums Quotes #Remember Quotes #Periods Quotes

“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.”
“That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends”, p.174, London, R. Bentley
“I will not live the rest of my life in regret.”
“As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.”
“Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.”
“The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.”

Source : Norman Thomas (1961). “Great Dissenters”
“[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.”
“I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.”

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