"Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person."

-- Georg Brandes

#Race Quotes #Effort Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.”
“Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does it in small ways of everyday rebellion just almost to assert who he is, like not putting a license plate on his car.”
“The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.”
“Most people try to escalate a relationship too quickly. Trust is built slowly, over time. Good relationships are built little by little, and there are no shortcuts, so do not try to push the relationship to progress faster than is natural. Because relationships are progressions, follow-ups are important.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“You can tell a lot about a person by whether or not they're a transvestite.”
“Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.”
“You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structures.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “Carmilla”, p.33, Booklassic
“It was our third game in five days. It seemed to have an impact on us.”

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