"The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students."

-- Kenneth R. Miller

#School Quotes #Mind Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat.”
“We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.”
“The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.”
“Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.”
“I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.”
“I've fallen in love a hundred times in my life! But never like you. So I wonder if I really fell or just tripped, you know?”
“marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.”
“A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.”

Source : Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa (1998). “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA

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