"Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him."

-- Maria Montessori

#Character Quotes #Independent Quotes #Men Quotes

“I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.”

Source : Interview With Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. June 2, 1999.
“I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Every action being taken against terrorists requires court order, requires scrutiny.”
“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
“L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.”
“Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

Source : Farewell Remarks to White House Cabinet and Staff, delivered 9 August 1974
“It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.”
“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”

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