"A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Past Quotes #Society Quotes

“Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.”
“I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'”
“In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.”
“Today we are all Egyptians.”
“We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.”

Source : "A Mme. Curie From The Bronx" by Elizabeth Stone, www.nytimes.com. 1978.
“Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.”
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
“When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and their progeny, as numerous experiments have proven; a pair of differing traits, on the other hand, are united in the hybrid to form a new trait, which usually is subject to changes in the hybrids' progeny.”

Source : Gregor Mendel, Alain F. Corcos, Floyd V. Monaghan (1993). “Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study”, p.69, Rutgers University Press

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