"Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!"

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Source : Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

Candace Wheeler

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“We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.”
“The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.”
“Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.”
“I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”

Source : "Down from Cold Mountain". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.
“The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.”
“The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Be the leader you wish you had.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 29, 2013
“A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and itâ€™s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.”

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