"Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed."

“No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.”

“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”

Source : Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”

“Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.”

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”

Source : Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.209, Library of America

“So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.”

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”

Source : Willa Cather (2011). “My Ántonia (我的安東妮亞)”, p.46, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

“People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.”

Source : "Things That Make Us Smart". Book by Don Norman, www.theguardian.com. 1993.

“Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.”