"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class."

-- Ellen Swallow Richards

#Class Quotes #Recycling Quotes #Week Quotes

“Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.”
“When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.”
“I like to play women who blaze trails.”
“I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”
“Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.”
“If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.”
“All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.”
“Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.”

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