"Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi in Christendome) that almost a new Nature has been revealed to us? that more errours of the School have been detected, more useful Experiments in Philosophy have been made, more Noble Secrets in Opticks, Medicine, Anatomy, Astronomy, discover'd, than in all those credulous and doting Ages from Aristotle to us? So true it is that nothing spreads more fast than Science, when rightly and generally cultivated."

-- John Dryden

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“I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.”
“I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.”
“It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.”

Source : John Fante (2013). “1933 Was A Bad Year”, p.1, Canongate Books
“Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”
“Without law and order our nation cannot survive.”
“If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him. If you seek Him, you are absent from Him. If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him. If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.”
“Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.”

Source : James Whitcomb Riley (1915). “The James Whitcomb Riley Reader: Selected, Graded, and with the Suggestions for the Observance of Riley Day”
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

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