"Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds."

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Elihu Burritt

#Hands Quotes #Law Quotes #Pet Quotes

“With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.”
“Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see that as suffocating rather than charming." Her words are sharp, but her voice is sweet, like honey on the edge of a blade, and meant to be cutting. I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain.”
“I don't know why people thought I was retiring.”
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”

Source : "Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.
“The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience”
“The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say.”
“Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.”
“Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street sounds and country sounds and city sounds that are very different from what it is I'm used to and I get very fascinated about how that marks a place.”

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