"At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away."

-- Henry Adams

#Teacher Quotes #Men Quotes #Effort Quotes

“By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.”

Source : Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.
“Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?”
“I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.”
“Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.”
“Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.”
“As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”
“Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.”
“I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.”

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