"Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property."

-- Aristotle

#Citizens Quotes #States Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.”
“Learning to play old instruments was a challenge. How do you learn an instrument no one has played in hundreds of years? The ones that are used today, I was adamant not to hear anyone else play that instrument. I want to approach them as a child and on the basis of each instrument. I wanted my voice to come through, not someone else's.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Any responsive, intelligent cat can be trained.”
“I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.”

Source : "Bonnie Hammer: She is Sci Fi". Interview with Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. October 9, 2001.
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.”
“The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.”
“During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.”

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