"A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste."

-- Henry Clay Trumbull

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“Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.”

Source : Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.”
“The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them.”
“Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.”
“If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.”

Source : Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.8, Penguin
“I'd like to apologize in advance for anything I may say or do that could be construed as offensive as I slowly go nuts!”
“When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live like a new creature and he will confess Christ.”
“The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.”

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