"The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Reading Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Body Quotes

“For those who don't live in a place where water is readily available, it's something you carry on your back for six kilometers, that makes your children sick, that is perhaps the hardest part of your existence.”

Source : "Alexandra Cousteau Tells Katie Couric, 'The Thing Every Human Has in Common Is Our Need for Water'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2010.
“...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.”
“Secular humanism debases the human.”
“Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.”
“While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.”
“I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”
“Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?”
“Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.”

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