"I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy which begins at the outside of our horizon to converge into egotism."

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Source : Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

Anna Brownell Jameson

#Home Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Horizon Quotes

“It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.”
“I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.”
“I thank God for making me a man.”
“I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.”
“It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.”

Source : "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics". Book by Roger Penrose (p. 269.), 1989.
“Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'”
“I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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