"A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars."

-- Carl Linnaeus

#Education Quotes #Stars Quotes #Clever Quotes

“Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.12
“I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.”
“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”
“I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.”
“The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal.”

Source : Ian Kershaw (2001). “The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks
“When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.”
“To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family.”
“All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.”

Source : "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell", www.nbcnews.com. March 16, 2011.

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