"As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Past Quotes #Errors Quotes #Age Quotes

“One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.”
“Casting is very, very important.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2010.
“I've seen this episode. This is the one where Sylvester eats Tweety.”
“When all else fails there's always delusion.”
“White peopleâ€™s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We donâ€™t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that weâ€™re ignorant.”
“Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.”
“God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.”
“Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.”

Source : "Sallust: The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha". Book by Sallust, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Book XX, part 4, 2013.

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