"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”

Source : "Dating In Midlife And What Secrets To Reveal" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.
“Carra doesn't like me to fist him before the games, so I give him a high-five instead.”
“The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases”

Source : An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox
“In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen, Campbell argued that while evolution (or Development) might be observable in the fossil record, it was merely evidence of God's purpose. God, for example, would cause horses and oxen to evolve in time to meet human needs. The brightly colored plumage of birds, Campbell went on, were simply God's decorations of nature for humanity's enjoyment.”
“That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland”
“He [John F. Kennedy] might have envisioned himself being "alone, at the top" but, like Woodrow Wilson, he would find out that not even a President moves free of human entanglement, human needs, human illusions; not even a President can be independent of those around him.”
“Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.”

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