#Children Quotes #Educational Quotes #Unique Quotes
“Bein' rich is having leftovers. Good leftovers make yo' tongue fly outta yo' mouth and smack yo' brains out.”
“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”
“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.”
“Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.”
“Magic enables man to carry out with confidence his important tasks, to maintain his poise and his mental integrity in fits of anger, in the throes of hate, of unrequited love, of despair and anxiety. The function of magic is to ritualize man's optimism, to enhance his faith in the victory of hope over fear. Magic expresses the greater value for man of confidence over doubt, of steadfastness over vacillation, of optimism over pessimism.”
Source : "Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays".
“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
“Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.”
Source : Roderick Frazier Nash (2014). “Wilderness and the American Mind: Fifth Edition”, p.262, Yale University Press
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