"Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper"

-- Ann Brashares

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“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”
“How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books
“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”
“From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.”
“That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 442), 1895.
“So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their employment patters and through their influence in the political arena, recognition of defined ethnic groups, seeking to link them to specific allocated roles in the labor-force, with different levels of real remuneration for their work. Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures.”
“Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk”

Source : NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.
“in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.”

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