"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.”

Source : Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”
“Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.”

Source : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company
“To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?”
“President Clinton celebrates the first casual Friday at the white house by wearing leather chaps.”
“When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.”
“I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...”
“I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.”
“If we have understanding, we can oversee the resources God entrusted to our care. And the wiser we are, the more effective we will be as stewards.”

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