"Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles."

-- Aristotle

#Order Quotes #Unity Quotes #Principles Quotes

“They hadnâ€™t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadnâ€™t anticipated its will to live.”
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”

Source : The Process of Education (p. 14)
“Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.”
“Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.”
“I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.”
“Changes occur because thereâ€™s a gap between what is and what should be.”
“A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.”
“Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you”

Source : Ring Lardner (2013). “Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings”, p.702, Library of America

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